Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

tom_hummel_at_hotmail.com (Thomas R. Hummel) wrote:

> Do you know why you don't hear these stories about Apple or LINUX?
> Because NO ONE CARES. If one of the five companies out there who
> actually run on LINUX get hacked, no one cares. Hackers concentrate
> their efforts on Windows and other Microsoft products because that's
> what most people use and that gives them the best chance of finding
> someone who isn't taking the precautions that they should be taking.

Which, of course, is the strongest possible argument against letting a monopolist like Microsoft continue to exist _at all_. If the market were divided up among the twenty or so competing OS vendors that a non-monopolistic market would engender, every link that crossed an OS boundary would be another natural stagnation point for virii; it is the ubiquitousness of "M$ at the other end" that makes messes like the current one possible.

xanthian. Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 23:59:55 CST