On 8/4/10 5:33 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Paul McNett<[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hey if you aren't causing harm to others, I don't care what you do. So if >> you want to >> run Windows 95 with no service packs, that's great as long as you keep it >> off the >> internet. >> > ----------------------- > > Because malware is created on linux no open os will be allowed. What > do you do when you give control up to the government? You wonder > what you were thinking. Much like some of us thinking that the > government is better at [ ] then standard commerce. You fill in > the blank with human rights, medicine, banking,....
America has the right idea because it is always a (mostly) healthy struggle between liberty of individuals and freedom of everyone. The government isn't better or worse at human rights, health care, or banking than the free market is, but the whole point of government is to regulate all affairs so things run smoothly and stay in control (as well as other important things like protecting our borders, making treaties, etc.). We have adequate history to show us that the free market needs government regulation. When an outbreak of disease happens, I expect my government to quarantine people as needed for the greater good. If people are still running infested desktops connected to the internet, and aren't acting to remedy the situation, those computers need to be taken down and their owners rehabilitated, possibly by running properly configured Linux or Macintosh desktops instead, since those platforms have a track record of being more resistant to malware than Windows systems are. Or, if they don't want to switch to a more secure platform, they can instead take classes to become a Microsoft-certified professional and gain the expertise necessary to be able to keep their own system clean. ;) Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
