James Edward John Taylor wrote:
If we went back in time toooo around 95 and changed the way a couple of companies dealt with the internet, and lets suppose microsoft went south bigtime, so becomes only a small "bit" player...
All those people writing that sort of thing would now be writing that sort of thing to attack linux systems, wouldnt it be conceivable there would be more linux viruses then there currnetly are?
A second issue with this is would your (avarage user again) know how to deal with these things. How many of them dig deeper holes by accepting spyware onto their computer, how many of them dont know where the stop js button is in their current browser?
Perhaps I read this wrong, but are you actually saying that it's good that MS Windows is around because it keeps Joe Public away from Linux - because if Linux was the mainstream OS for desktops then it would suffer from more viruses/viri (whatever the correct plural is)?
-- Ben "tola" Francis