From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A geeky question
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:30:34 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:24 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A geeky question

> >StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 08/19/03 12:10PM
> > One factor is that Microsoft is a bigger target since so many
> >operating systems are Microsoft products.  And, for Microsoft bashers, a
> >more emotionally satisfying target.
>
> Well yes.
> The question is more about the folks with non-Microsoft operating system
=
> [fill in the blank] who crow about their non-virus, non-worm attacked =
> software.
>
> Are they nominally invulnerable because no one cares about molesting
their =
> OS?

Basically, yes.  The majority of them have Apples; the rest run Linux or
something else on PCs.   But *every* business (!) uses Microsoft.  As does
the government.   Apples are mostly used by artists and geeks.

--Ted White