[Am-info] Gates gets governmemnt security at tax payer expense

[John Angelico]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:55:58 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:

>A more serious worry is that the department of homeland security has 
>standardized on windows, and is now trying to make it secure, which I 
>fear will perhaps wind up being an enormous subsidy for the windows OS.

I am too far away to know or care if this is so, but Napoleon's Maxim springs
to mind: if you are presented with a choice between conspiracy and
incompetence to explain actions or decisions, choose incompetence. 

Makes you wonder how bad the losers intelligence services must be...

>If you guys are going to make remarks about our intelligence services 
>being morons (they are), keep in mind that at a time when the Russians 
>and Chinese and Europeans and everyone competent is moving from windows 
>to linux for their intelligence services, we are standardizing on 
>windows.  Yes, they are the least competent intelligence agency in the 
>world, and their ability to select an OS without knowing or caring that 
>it has a few security problems is one of the measures of it.  They are 
>so far behind the Russians in skill level, it is a sad joke.....

Hey Hans, have you noticed how many Russian sites are onto OS/2 and eCS?

Maybe they have learned an important lesson...

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2@melbpc.org.au or 
talldad@kepl.com.au
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