On Monday 27 December 2004 02:13 am, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutually exclusive, > as far as mainstream is concerned. Well, look who they've been trained by. > It's perfectly possible to turn a Unix into a point-and-drool box, and > if it ever hits mainstream (OS X 2% ain't that) the least secure > system will be chosen, and it will evolve towards less security, and > more convenience. Having had to mark down Linspire over and over and over and over until it finally started selling versus stamping out Debian CDs for customers who request them tells another story. Debian sells, Linspire does not. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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