>
> > You always say stuff like that ("buy the poor guy a few gig of ram",
> etc.).
> > But it's not "grossly" negligent if you aren't going to phishing
> sites
>
> well, our sysadmins told me in no uncertain terms few months ago that they
> won't let a laptop running OSX 10.6 anywhere near our intranet.
> Go figure.
They're paid to worry. I'm not saying it can't happen, and it does all the
time. But it can also happen with up-to-date (Heartbleed, anyone?).
> I don't say that because I think Linux is bad. Plop this argument into
the
> developing world with few IT resources of the sort needed to make Linux
fun
> and easy, or to try to just randomly find exactly the chip you need at
the
> price you can pay ...
> Developing world is used to run pirated software, don't you known this?
Well, yes. But that doesn't make my argument go away, though it was
interesting that piracy rates weren't really correlated with open source
adoption either direction.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/comingled-code
> Linux runs on pretty much every Intel box, provided it is not bleeding
edge.
Interesting article I read about Peace Corps volunteers needing to figure
out what to do with machines with < 256 MB of RAM, where Linux wouldn't
play nice.
Anyway, this is all OT, sorry.
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