David Phillips wrote: >Chad Walstrom writes: > > >>David's post wasn't part of the thread, and it made sweeping, stark >>comments about security without giving supporting statements or >>references. It was a troll. >> >> > >Please look up the definition of troll. Pay specific attention to the part >about being ``intentionally incorrect''. Just because you are ignorant of >or choose to ignore publicly documented information that is easily found >using Google does not make me a troll. > >Also, please pay attention to the context of my message. It was a direct >response to Sam MacDonald's statement of being tired of Microsoft providing >security patches. Many popular pieces of open source software have had many >security holes. Microsoft certainly does not have a monopoly on patching >security holes. > > > I guess when microsoft makes a mistake it effects more people. The fact that large numbers of people are effected is what causes me to be upset with microsoft. The fact that I know many windows SA's that stay up late and away from their families because of the software mistakes microsoft makes. Software is written by people so mistakes happen. Having a mistake or a software package made more important then my family or any family is both morally and ethically wrong. That is the real issue that I tried to address in a simple way. No one is perfect I should have been more clear. I would like the whole thing to be dropped, because it's becoming more then it needs or was intended to be. This is becoming bickering, I don't believe bickering is what this forum is about. Sharing ideas and helping "People" who are new to Linux or who just can't find the answer is what this forum should be about. Am I correct or am I wrong? In my opinion (what ever it's worth) as people who work in the information technology field, you should be more worried about your job being off-shored then who patches the most or least. That is a real issue because as I write some guy in India is doing work that any of us could do. But it costs one forth to do that job in India. That says that American business does not value American workers, it only values the bottom line. That friends, is bad for this country and every other country on this planet, enough said. YiS Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list