[techtalk] About prettyphysicslady on the linuxchix techtalk list...

[jenn at simegen.com]

Amy wrote:

>  I just don't understand why this person doesn't take
> all of this advice she has been given and just secure her
> darn machine and stop bothering us about why it isn't as
> secure as Windows (bwahaha). Take it up with the distro
> developers. Or even better, make you own distro where it
> isn't the default setting! That's the great thing about
> Linux...we, the people,  have access to the code and can
> do such things.

I think she thinks we're a monolithic company, or hasn't realised 
the implications of the fact that we're not.

I get the feeling that she and her friend think we 'want' market 
share, stock prices and the like. Cathedral model, rather than 
bazaar.

Ah well. She's given me some ideas for things which I need to
put into my security articles on my professional web page.



Jenn V.
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