On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:50, Vishal Vatsa wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:36, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Feb 2004, Kermie wrote:
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3457823.stm>> > As I see it, the two major effects of this are:
> >
> > 1. opening up backdoors on several million windows pcs
> > 2. damage to reputation of OSS
> > 3. shortlived attacks on SCO, Microsoft
> Why the hell all the uber media analysts can't see this.
A: Cluelessness.
B: A desire to protect the closed source gravy train.
C: Lack of a visitation from Tyler Durden and some boys with an elastic
band.
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