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I'll get paid to fix it. Which beats the snot out of trying to find productive work, doesn't it? I should really be more grateful to MSFT sometimes.

No_Ax rarely shows up in the numerous threads about the exploit of the day. I think he either works for MSFT, or maybe one of their advertising or PR companies. He's definitely not a techie.

I remember in this very board over the last couple years watching the sentiment change. When I first started reading here whenever anyone would suggest OSS or Mozilla there would be a majority opinion that Linux wasn't ready and MSFT had 96% of the market and wasn't going away for decades.

My what a change in just a couple short years. Certainly the IE rout is in full bloom and the switch away from Windows isn't far behind. Mac stands to make some gains, Linux is making gains I can see in my server logs month to month.

And even No_Ax can't deny the truth of it. MSFT is getting the crap kicked out of them in the market right now and there are some very big companies lining up more secure competitive products. No company, no matter how big or how much cash they have, can take that kind battering for long.
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close a hole, open a hole.  linuxoverwindows | 01/08/05
Message has been deleted.  DragonBRockin | 01/07/05
Whatever it breaks  Chad_z | 01/09/05
two-month-old advance notification program  Squawkbox | 01/07/05
I know I probably shouldn't, but here goes  Confused by religion | 01/07/05
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Milly I feel your pain...  htotten | 01/08/05
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What's up with Linux video support?  NonZealot | 01/10/05
It's simple.  TimeBomb | 01/07/05
I really gotta stop this and go home  Confused by religion | 01/07/05
C'mon Milly someone really does appreciate your input  Squawkbox | 01/07/05
DITTO!  htotten | 01/08/05
Go home...  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 01/07/05
MS, please supply the source code for the patches...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 01/08/05
You want the source to my software as well?  htotten | 01/08/05
ok  LinuxHippie | 01/08/05
Not sure why you are posting in assembly...  B.O.F.H. | 01/08/05
Mostly true....  htotten | 01/09/05
Couple of points...  B.O.F.H. | 01/09/05
Why ASM  LinuxHippie | 01/09/05
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windows must be retarted  linuxoverwindows | 01/08/05
Ummmmmm  htotten | 01/09/05
Doh! Not Again!!  Hugh Jass | 01/09/05
Was hilarious  FilledOut | 01/09/05
Please check your pies at the door... (nt)  Hugh Jass | 01/09/05
Non-issue for this CIO  Mike Cox | 01/10/05
7.5  Real World | 01/10/05

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