[BadVista Advocate] Virus

[Kevin Dwyer]

Editorial:

shit-ozz?
Windoze?
M$?

Please stop using childish pseudonyms and leet-speak translations for
Microsoft and Windows.  It's unprofessional in a time when you're
allegedly trying to get the real world to take you seriously.  It
makes us all look bad.

This is not directed at any one person.  You know who you are.

-kpd

On 4/30/07, D'n Russler <d_n at loryx.com> wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2007 at 19:09, paolo del bene wrote:
>
> > please think to shit-ozz as a virus not as an operating system, and
> > so
> > all the problems are finished.
>
> pdb--
>
> I don't understand. When you say "shit-ozz", do you mean Vista?
>
> IMAO, all Windoze "systems" are applications (at best), from 95 through 2K
> through Vista, andare NOT "operating systems". As anyone who has either
> done a degree in Computer Science or read the classic (modern) works on
> O/S knows, the basic function of an O/S is to manage a computer's
> resources.
>
> Unfortunately, the Windoze family of application software fails to do this in
> many ways --  this is why all Windoze users need to cold-reboot their
> computers once every 24 or 48 hours, depending on their usage, because
> the application (W-2K, XP, and I assume Vista but I'm afraid to try it) simply
> does not keep any track of simple, basic things like files open, sockets
> used, and data channels assigned.
>
> >
> > operating system are others things:
> >
> > not free software (multics, unix, its, vms, mvs,  irix ) free
> > software
> > (gnu/linux gnu/hurd, gnu/kfreebsd),these are operating system
>
> > (shit-ozz is a joke) and is a virus
> >
>
> I have been referring to Windoze as "The Virus" for years now, as I'm sure
> many others do.  The Applications fit all the classic definitions of a virus; so
> any attempt by MS to make their Applications more "secure" only makes
> their virus-like behavior more dangerous.
>
> I didn't "upgrade" to XP, and I sure as hell won't go anywhere near Vista (*
> shudders at the thought *)
>
>
> > bye bye
> > pdb
> >
>
>
>
>
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