That'll be the day. You could kiss gmail and all the photo-upload sites goodbye immediately, as well as a TON of other sites....and as noted below, this site as well.

This issue serves to raise some legitimate concerns, but it should not be used to further an ideological "anything other than HTML/CSS is bad" mentality. And with all the interests arrayed against such a mentality, it wouldn't happen in any case.

The average user isn't going to associate the words "javascript exploit" with "Oh, I need to change settings in my browser". Even the user base of reddit, tech oriented as it is, isn't going to change basic settings and habits to avoid such a problem. Instead, Reddit will patch its hole, and everyone will get on with their day.

Case in point, I'm simply going to avoid Reddit for the rest of the day. Simple problem, simpler cure....

That'd make me LOL, to be sure, especially if it worked.

Reading my own words, I been clearer.

Looking at it from a global top-down kind of view, I think Linux is definitely building positive associations as an alternative server/desktop/laptop OS. Slowly, but surely.

Windows, in turn, is being harmed by its own negative associations, and by the fact that more and more people are owning smart phones that help show them that they really can free themselves from the Microsoft ecosphere without foregoing any "benefits".

At this point, those perceived benefits mostly amount to "We need Windows because it's what everybody else uses." It's interesting to see just how entrenched the incompatibility problems of the 80's and early 90's have become in the "consumer" mind.

It's taken decades now for Mac and Linux combined to carve out a
That said, I meant my comment to specifically apply only to the markets such as the ones being discussed, where people really don't interact with the actual OS, but rather with a limited-functionality UI that's grafted on top of it.

And in that sense, I doubt branding such devices with Linux would be terribly beneficial from a marketing perspective, because it's nearly impossible to convey the benefits Linux brings to such a device within their limited context.

....more like, he's a marketing guy, evolved a bit from a sales drone, and oftentimes there's just no need to overcomplicate the sales and promotion process.

Is Linux a selling point to this guy's customers? Probably not. And certainly not as it would be to people on this website.

Thus, no need to get into it.

The real question is "has Linux even pervaded the public's consciousness sufficiently to where it *could* be a plus or minus?" And I'd have to argue no, at least not outside the tech crowd.