[116962] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Bag Jobs VS Shopping Bag Jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Tue Aug 24 11:34:57 1999
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:11:21 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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THE FUTURE IS OPEN SOURCE! Hopefully, in another 2 or 3 years, I
will be rid of MS and be running Linux only. Linux
is OpenSource. I consider MS to be a long term security hazard.
There are other good reasons for dumping MS and
using Linux. I think that in a very few more years people will
regard it as ridiculous to use a secretive, proprietary
operating system. Security will be too important to trust it. The
same thing will go for Internet browsers and for sentinels
(anti-virus ware). They, too, must be OpenSource.
Hell, as soon as I can find a email client as easy to use
(for filtering and pgp signing/encryption) as Eudora, I'm giving up
Mac's for anything execpt graphic design, all communication and
personal work will be on an open source machine.
I'm already Microsoft free at home, and have been for about 2 years.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this
country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a
product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of
rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan
Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
