[116972] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Bag Jobs VS Shopping Bag Jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thrumbar Pathfinder)
Tue Aug 24 18:30:47 1999
From: Thrumbar@worldnet.att.net (Thrumbar Pathfinder)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:03:39 GMT
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Don't forget
FreeBSD !!!!
OpenBSD
NetBSD
BeOS
Thrumbar@Worldnet.att.net
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:11:21 -0700, you wrote:
> THE FUTURE IS OPEN SOURCE! Hopefully, in another 2 or 3 years, I=20
>will be rid of MS and be running Linux only. Linux
>is OpenSource. I consider MS to be a long term security hazard.=20
>There are other good reasons for dumping MS and
>using Linux. I think that in a very few more years people will=20
>regard it as ridiculous to use a secretive, proprietary
>operating system. Security will be too important to trust it. The=20
>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=20
>(for filtering and pgp signing/encryption) as Eudora, I'm giving up=20
>Mac's for anything execpt graphic design, all communication and=20
>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=20
>country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a=20
>product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of=20
>rather na=EFve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan=20
>Greenspan, "Anti-trust"=20
>http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
