[wplug] OT: Consumer Reports ignores open source

Scott F. Kiesling kiesling at pitt.edu
Wed Aug 18 11:13:54 EDT 2004


That's the one. It was pretty maddening. Too bad it was on NPR too. Guess 
I'll have to send them a copy...

SFK

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 at 11:11am, the following was brought forth by steve leach:

> Is this the same article which reviewed anti virus software?  I don't 
> actually receive C.R., but I heard an interview the other day on NPR 
> about this article.  I was amazed that they would devote so much time 
> to anti virus, anti spy-ware, and security software for Windows while 
> failing to mention that Windows is the only operating system on which 
> such things are necessary (due both to a lack of security and to a 
> virtually homogeneous population of unsecured windows boxes).  I don't 
> have access to the article, but this is what I gathered from the story.
> 



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