From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:40:39 +0000 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 29 Message-ID: <38AB2767.83D4FE9D@bigfoot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-34.berkelium.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk 950812581 22153 62.136.68.34 (17 Feb 2000 18:36:21 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Feb 2000 18:36:21 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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? -- Richard Dawe richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/