Dan Espen wrote:
"HeyBub" writes:

Chris wrote:
I was helping the OP when you began your venomous pro-Windows spew,
remember? No, you won't.

I didn't start it. Someone - it may have been you - began touting the
superiority of Linux when the original subject had nothing to do
with Ubuntu or some other incarnation of Linux. Many Linux users are
like that - proposing Linux as better than fish. "I use Windows."
(get Linux!). "I need an AV program for XP." (get Linux). "I have a
flat!" (get Linux). "Isn't it a shame about famine in Sudan?" (get
Linux). "I have giant festering, fungating boils all over my body.
My dog, too!" (get Linux).

The subject was a good AV program.

If you don't think Linux is a good suggestion,
your logical capabilities are failing you.

You point is well taken. Should someone's goal - to the exclusion of most
everything else - be to avoid viruses, then I concede Linux to be a swell
solution. So is a stuffed bear paw.




I own a software company. I develop software for a living. I expect
to get paid for it and I don't mind paying someone else for their
efforts. Folks who base their evaluation of a product or service
entirely on price are probably equally happy with a blow-up doll.

Again those bad analogies...
now blow-up dolls are free?

Used ones that don't hold air can probably be had for that price. Does that
make the analogy more correct?


I also own a bag full of Microsoft stock, but that in no way
influences my opinion. No sir.

Wow, you admit to owning MSFT?
How have the last 8 years been treating you?
Not so good huh?

Everything is relative. Last week I got a little quarterly dividend
checkie-poo for $2,200.00.


Seriously, MSFT? Were you expecting them to increase their market
share? It doesn't pay to buy evil.

At 90+% of the desktop, it would be hard. Microsoft has more cash in the
bank (some 50-odd billion dollars) than the budget of California.


Not too late to grab some AAPL.
I got some in 2005. Sure wish I have a bag full.

Why take sloppy-seconds? Much of the software running on the Mac is written
by Microsoft.