-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of David Holden
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:30 AM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com; William Hooper
Subject: Re: Fedora and the System Administrator -- there are a lot of
variables here ...
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 6:51 pm, William Hooper wrote:
David Holden said:
[snip]
>> > As far as I know for version of Microsoft OS's your guaranteed >3
>>
>> years
>>
>> > use of that OS and security updates are *free*.
>> > (Yes I know microsoft and security are words that really don't
>> > mix :))
>>
>> Secondly, Microsoft has the volume to sustain security updates on a
>> $99-199 product. Red Hat does not.
Microsoft also has megabucks (or is it gigabucks?) from their other
products and especially servers.
Realize this: MS removed certain features and abilities from Windows 95
as a "security" measure to protect NT from hackers. Linux hackers had
unlocked doors.
Buck