On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:58:59PM -0500, B McAndrews wrote: > >Stop. Your response is nothing but pure fanboyism. This type of > >> advocacy is ignorant and does nothing to advance OSS in the industry. > >> Allow me to retort: > >> > > > >>> > Security MS = bad, linux=good > > Could someone staighten me out here. When did Unix based system become > the bastion of security?
When did anyone claim it was? The claim was that Linux was better than MS (and not by me, who cares not and would not touch MS with a barge pole). > In a former lifetime, I used to work on VAX/VMS for classified (as > in military) work. I can't remember the issues, but when we started > moving off the VAX/VMS over to Unix workstations, the IT security > folks were not at all comfortable with the security of Unix compared > to the VAX/VMS. Does anyone have any insights as to why that might > be? Not being a psychologist, nor knowing these people, no, I can't. But I can't see how that is relevant to a comparison of MS vs Linux, in any case. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
