[olug] What if USB no longer worked on Mac's or Linux?

[John Dickson]

To bring this out in such a forum is Linux poison. Cause for the Linux community, in a small part, to erode. Not any different than a market steering technique via terror comments that pose such dominance and control. "How are we going to protect ourselves!!!" Agghhh. Hardware has been an issue for Linux for a long time. Drivers were written by users in many cases, not hardware manufacturers.

 I see this (the article and the mechanism/fish that gets hooked) as a piece of the MS machine working it's stuff!

 I wonder if the military does this kinda mental masterbation without any real climax???????????  What's it called when they work a mindset (group)??? Leverage  fear and joule output increases exponentially? Bill does not love Linus. Corporate warfare.

That's all I have. Have a nice day.:)

John

Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote ..
> Hey, It could happen.   And it doesn't seem all that farfetched to me as
> a 
> business strategy.  Read I, Cringley's column.
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html
> 
> This gives MS a great opp0rtunity.  I'll impersonate Steve Ballmer for
> a 
> minute. "You've been bashing us for years because we were not secure enough.
> We've listened to what you've said.  We value security so highly that we
> want 
> to make sure only devices that we've approved work with our new secure
> OS."
> 
> Sure sounds good, unless you're on the outside.
> 
> Dave Thacker
> 
> 
> 
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