Warp wrote:
> Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Why is it that so many M$ users (present company excepted) defend their
>> choice by pointing to the success of M$ as a company rather than being
>> able to rationally discuss the pros and cons of Windows (all variants)
>> as a stable and secure OS?
> 
>   I have never understood and will probably never understand this:
> 
>   "Hey, we have all this super-secret data and documents which are
> absolutely vital to the survival of our company. Let's make ourselves
> completely dependent on the software, proprietary formats and restrictive
> licenses of a third-party company who we have absolutely no guarantees
> about and who could one day change any software and licensing to anything
> they want on a whim. Let's also use their OS which is infamously known
> for the vast amount of devastating malware in our absolutely critical
> systems instead of using some other OS with little or no malware at all."
> 

At least the Partners were intelligent enough to understand the problem
with the above mindset. Why they employ a moron as their Office Manager
is beyond me. OTOH maybe that's the sort of people you need for such a
boring task ;-) (apologies to any OMs amongst us)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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