Howard, I've always cherished your comments, they tend to always hit the
mark, and this subject is no exception! More..

Howard Winter wrote:
> Randy,
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:25:44 EDT, Randy Abernathy wrote:
>
>
>>Anyway, I was just saying that no matter what OS you use, or how secure it
>>is now, some not too nice hacker will put his skills to underhanded use and
>>find  a way to crack into it.

> They may certainly try, but if the system is designed with security in mind from the start and built with the
> required skill, there is nothing to say that they will succeed.
>
> Banks are robbed every day, but Fort Knox, the Bank of England and so on, do not have people walking away with
> wheelbarrows full of gold.  As far as I am aware neither have been robbed successfully, and that is not
> because it's impossible, but because security is so well-designed and maintained that the effort needed to
> pull it off is too great and the risk of success too small.

Yes indeed.

The fact is that a purchaser expects a minimal level of software
performance, regardless of who makes it, or what it is. Over 16 years,
MS products have proven to be expensive, consistently buggy and poorly
written. Yet, over same 16 years, I have bought Borland Turbo Pascal
3.0, 5.0, 7.0, etc etc, Borland Delphi D4, D5, D6, D7, etc etc, and was
NEVER ONCE disappointed; not ONE bug did I ever find.

I bought Win3, then Win3.1, then Win95, then WinNT, then WinME, then
Win2K. Everytime, MS promised a decent return on the money I spent, but
all I got was fluff and mirrors. If I had all the money I spent on
Windows, I could have afforded alimony for another wife or two, and
wouldn't have stopped at just 5.

Not until Win2K arrived did Windows even REMOTELY approach its promised
performance. And in my humble opinion, NO improvements would have been
made in Windows AT ALL if the world wasn't suing it.

The future belongs to Linux. Not because it is somehow brilliant or
dazzling.... LINUX wins because it simply WORKS AS PROMISED.

--Bob

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