Comment Re:Who needs this? (Score 1) 184
Can't we just use both?
Who here can really say that security on their box is sooo good that a Trojan horse or virus can't come in an wipe out files or trash the system? Who can say they never make a mistake here or there. Its all fine and good to trash some newbies (it not, but I have bigger fish to fry in this rant) but when it come down to it, there are people our there spending their whole time trying to come up with new virii (see Chinese Virus thread) If you don't want to give Computer Associates your money (or your company's money) for an anti-virus product...Don't. But don't discourage them because our Linux ego is too big to ask for a little help.
Linux is NOT perfect. It is a work in progress. If we keep discouraging companies from writing software because it "offends" us, Linux will die.
Who here can really say that security on their box is sooo good that a Trojan horse or virus can't come in an wipe out files or trash the system? Who can say they never make a mistake here or there. Its all fine and good to trash some newbies (it not, but I have bigger fish to fry in this rant) but when it come down to it, there are people our there spending their whole time trying to come up with new virii (see Chinese Virus thread) If you don't want to give Computer Associates your money (or your company's money) for an anti-virus product...Don't. But don't discourage them because our Linux ego is too big to ask for a little help.
Linux is NOT perfect. It is a work in progress. If we keep discouraging companies from writing software because it "offends" us, Linux will die.
