>
maybe if the governemt would stop and think of the
money they could save the taxpayers as compared
to paying so much for windoz. i honestly believe
that most people are not completely stupid as
far as learning. i would hope our government
and military could be included here :)
dacia wrote
> I read an interview with an airforce sysadmin where he
> was asked about linux and other free OS's. He replied
> that they use lilnux for many of their servers (in
> some cases against the wishes of their superiors) and
> windows for desktop machines. His arguement was that
> they have to have a standardized interface on as many
> machines as they can. This is so Joe Blow can be
> transfered from miami to germany, go into his office
> and do his work without retraining. He also mentioned
> that the majority of users are immediately familiar
> with a windows interface while the average user would
> be lost on a gnome/windowmaker/kde desktop.
>
> Dacia
> --- patrick darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Romanator wrote:
> >
> > > "Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > > > counterparts. Nothing available can touch
> > Outlook and Outlook express.
> > > >
> > > > Have you heard of the latest security issue with
> > Outlook. Anybody sending you
> > > > mail can run their code on your machine when you
> > open the email. It has
> > > > something to do with Outlook's ActiveX engine.
> > Just a note, just in case
> > > > somebody formats your hard drive.
> > >
> > > Yup. It's amazing what you can do to Outlook.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Roman
> > > Registered Linux User #179293
> >
> > whats really amazing to me is the u s governemnt
> > along with other governments
> > keep right on using that other operating system. i
> > have read a while back
> > that with the i love u virus that even some
> > government computers were
> > put down. it seems the viruses are getting worse and
> > worse and the u s
> > government just stands by and does nothing when it
> > could make the
> > move to Linux and have much more secure and much
> > more powerful
> > systems. its just amazing. and think of all the
> > money they would
> > save.
> >
> >
>
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