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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is sources unreachable?
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:56:06 -0600
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> Of course, you have to count that against the man hours it sonsumed, which was
> sizable.  Also, it doesn't seem to be affecting anyone's attitude towards
> depending so heavily on one very vulnerable OS.

yes, it's odd, but people equate "computers" with that OS. As in,
"computers get viruses like this and that's the way it is". They have
trouble understanding that, in fact, that's the way it is for that
vulnerable OS.

Too bad.

ron