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On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:00, Duane Morin wrote: > > It's a good question. Education is always a good thing. Unfortunately > you have to wonder whether people care to be enlightened. If you just got > whacked with a virus at home, and I either said to you "Here's a program > you can run so you don't get viruses anymore" or I said "Let me explain to > you why viruses happen...." I think that your typical home user wants the > first one. Immediate gratification. "If I buy this Linux thing then I > won't get viruses anymore, right? Here's my credit card." Ah, but why should the typical user believe that this hippie operating system that was patched together by a bunch of volunteers is more virus-proof than a product of a multi-million-dollar corporation? -- "It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder." --Marilyn Manson // seth gordon // sethg at ropine.com // http://ropine.com/sethg/cv.html //
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