Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:31:45 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Non Windows users may ignore this...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 8/12/2006 2:08:42 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>> http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5789
>
>"Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>> That's not news...there are similar alerts on almost a weekly basis
>> for Windows.  Now if it had been Linux, that migh tbe news...
>
>And if it was for NetBSD or VMS, it would be front page headline
>news.

Probably not, since I suspect most computer users do use Windows and
probably either haven't heard of Linux, NetBDS, or VMS or think of them
as complicated geek toys.  Sort of like a car with a hand crank and
manual transmission.

Which is not to say they are such a car, just that I suspect most
computer users view it that way.

OTOH, there seems to be some growth in the non-Microsoft world, witness
the growth of Firefox.

A further OTOH... remember when the wordprocessor of choice was
WordStar, when the databse of choice was dBase, when the spreadsheet of
choice of Lotus?  Things do change, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.

mjw