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[CS-FSLUG] Microsoft___s winning anti-Linux strategy

Don Parris evangelinux at thefreelyproject.org
Tue May 24 12:58:15 EDT 2005


On Tue, 24 May 2005 11:20:53 -0400
"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:

> "Everyone knows that Microsoft has a new anti-Linux strategy.
> 
> Everyone knows it___s based on promises of security.
> 
> What everyone doesn___t know is how well it___s working. And it___s working
> better than open source advocates want to admit."
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=289&tag=nl.e539
> 


And for those concerned about the lack of patch management for GNU/Linux
systems (from one of the responses):

http://www.shavlik.com/hfn_linux.aspx
http://www.opsware.com/products/serverautomation/patchmgmt/
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/
redhats up2date
and even a free one!
http://www.nrh-up2date.org/

This seems a bit like Sadam's press guy - he kept talking about how the
Iraqi Army was slaughtering the Americans right up 'til the Americans rolled
through Bagdad.

Don
-- 
evangelinux    GNU Evangelist
http://matheteuo.org/                   http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/
"Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime
anywhere."



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