From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:40:39 +0000
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Hello.

Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Dr.Sslyom Andras wrote:
> 
> >     Chris Jones wrote:
> > ...
> > >IMO, Win2000 is good value for money.
> >
> > you are lucky... You did not run into the remaining 65000 problems,
> > some 20000 of which may be serious according to a Microsoft internal
> > report
> 
> This is _exactly_ the point. How many thousands of other errors subtle
> errors are there which we don't know about? The thing is bad people are
> getting to know about these "features" and they then use it to target
> and hackinto other peoples systems.

I don't think that any software is immune to this! This is true of pretty
much any operating system and software. I often wonder if Linux actually
has more holes, because of the pace of development of it.

Shouldn't this sort of discussion be in some newsgroup like
comp.os.advocacy.win2k-vs-linux.argue.to.the.death?

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Richard Dawe
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