RE: [MLUG] Study: Open source poses security risks (???)

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Ross, Matt wrote:

> Anybody here not start out defending MS?
> That seems to be a common history for many linux users.

Not me.  My first programming was on an early version of the trash-80, my
first real programming was on a VAX/VMS.  My first "PC" was a Mac (which
saved my backside since my senior thesis was on medieval English poetry
and that was the only system available where you could hack up the fonts
to get certain non-standard glyphs).  My grad school work (non-data
collection) was done on a combination of DecStations running VMS and the
Andrew (Unix) work stations at CMU. The second PC, bought right out of
grad school, would also have been a Mac, except that the only one that was
remotely affordable by me at the time was the Mac IIvx, which is one of
the worst and most-overpriced PCs ever foisted on the thinking public.
That wouldn't do, so I bought a Gateway 486/33 running Windows 3.1.  That
set-up was hideous and infuriating, so I introduced Linux to my lab (and
home) in the early SLS days.  The only version of MS Word I ever liked
(and this was pre-Emacs) was the first one for the Mac in 1985; that was
really a step forward over MacWrite and other word processors of the time.
Then in grad school, my advisor used Scribe, so I did too...

jking


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