Martin McCann writes: > then stop complaining to a list of 'kiddies', and use that.
MS doesn't support FreeBSD. > If you have never encountered the term FLOSS, you are not the open > source user you claim to be, it is a common term. I've probably encountered it, I just didn't retain it. The IT world is full of acronyms. > And what open source developer does anything but 'doing it at a loss'?. Very few, which is one reason why open source is not a serious competitor to proprietary software in many cases. > Statistics will prove whatever you want it to prove, most people with > intelligence look beyond the given conclusion, and make their own. If you don't look at statistics to draw your conclusions, what do you look at? > Depends on what you want as a desktop - desktop != WIMP. Most people want a GUI on the desktop, and UNIX isn't designed for that. There are fundamental conflicts between the design requirements of a desktop and those of a server. One cannot do both well. > Alternatively, many of the features of windows seem to match those of > already available software. And so on, and so on. GUIs on the desktop predate the Mac and Windows interfaces by many years. > So what defines a secure system, if not the fact it is less prone > breakens? The NCSC criteria are a good start. Windows NT and its successors satisfy more of them than UNIX. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
