[sllug-members]: Web Threats

[Mike Bourgeous]

>From: raven <raven at kekeke.org>
>Reply-To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: Web Threats
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:26:44 -0700
>
>Mike Bourgeous wrote:
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>>Another web threat: Vista.
>>
>Vista has been out not even a few months and already it's a web threat?

My comment was more verbally ironic than anything.  And, after all, this is 
a mailing list for Linux users ;).  Vista is indeed a threat in the sense 
that one of the things it does while functioning as intended is make a video 
card look fuzzy and audio quality poor, or even shut things down and stop 
blacklisted hardware from functioning, etc.  Malware is something that, when 
functioning as intended, causes a computer to behave badly.  Vista is a 
threat to the web because Microsoft has the resources necessary to force 
most companies to bend to Vista's requirements, which has the potential to 
harm other systems' ability to use those companies' products.

I use the word "threat" in this case not to refer to traditional threats but 
to less annoying, but more serious dangers to the computer industry (any 
capitalist knows that competition fosters innovation).  Now, this is 
slightly off-topic, so if there is a rebuttal for my comments that doesn't 
pertain to the original question about web threats, I'd be glad to hear it 
off-list.  My mind is open to new information.

Not looking for a flame war,
Mike Bourgeous

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