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Steve Balmer and Bill also used to call Linux a cancer but look now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-07/hackers-breach-thousands-of-microsoft-cu
by whoisninja 6y ago
Steve Balmer and Bill also used to call Linux a cancer
but look now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-07/hackers-breach-thousands-of-microsoft-customers-around-the-world https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-07/hackers-b...
their OS filled with malicious stuff and who knows what kind of backdoors is when exploited by hackers, they blame it on China rather than taking responsibility of putting users at risk with vulnerable OS
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- whoisninja 6y agothese people had fiduciary duties to make money for their investors. they've only lived in that world their entire life. It doesn't matter what they say about things. Read, learn and make your own conclusions if you will. and as Linus Torvalds simply put it decades ago: that these people are out there to make money and not make world a better place even if they pretend .
- tester756 6y ago>and not make world a better place even if they pretend . I think MS made computer adaptation over the world significantly faster, but I'm not sure about it.
- rustybelt 6y agoAre you refusing to consider the negative externalities of Bitcoin because Microsoft executives bad-mouthed Linux twenty years ago?
- whoisninja 6y agoi never said that, i just said it doesn't matter what these people say. think for yourself. If you believe Bitcoin pollutes the environment, fine by me - i have no issue.
- tw04 6y agoI guess I don't follow the "Look now". Every large piece of software has security vulnerabilities. If MS were refusing to patch their software I guess you'd have a point - the fact they released a patch and people who didn't apply it are getting exploited isn't really relevant to whether or not bitcoin is bad for the planet. >their OS filled with malicious stuff and who knows what kind of backdoors is when exploited by hackers You're going to need some citations if you're going to claim windows server has intentional "malicious stuff and backdoors". That's a bold claim to make without evidence.
- whoisninja 6y agohttps://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
- tw04 6y agoI'm sorry, they lose all credibility when they call forced updates "malware". We spent the entirety of the late-90s/early 2000s complaining that MS didn't force updates on users, so these massive worms were infecting half the internet with exploits that were patched YEARS earlier. It took moving a mountain to get MS to enforce patching of consumer systems, to sit here now and claim that's malware is both irresponsible and ridiculously short-sighted. Without mandatory patching, I can say without exaggeration that the entire internet would be less safe. Anyone spewing that nonsense is either too young to remember how horrible things were, or too stubborn to acknowledge it was the right thing to do whether they personally agree with it or not.
- whoisninja 6y agoit doesn't matter, at the end of the day.. do you think open-source OS that is widely used and audited is more secure than closed source OS like Windows? most infosec community knows the answer. if you know yours well, good. I am not convincing anyone, anything. I just meant, there is value is looking at things objectively than reading some news articles or opinions said by some bigwigs.
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- tester756 6y ago"Linux is a cancer" - opinion "Bitcoin is bad for the planet" - fact(?)
- whoisninja 6y agoyou're asking or deciding? if you know for sure, even then it doesn't matter if Bill Gates agrees or disagrees with you?
- tester756 6y agoI meant that "Linux is cancer" seems just to be purely an opinion meanwhile behind claim that "BTC is bad for planet" stands some convincing things like energy usage and stuff.
- whoisninja 6y agonot sure actually, are you?
- whoisninja 6y agoalso what Linux and Bitcoin have in common that Bill Gates always will try to ignore is open-source software. It's inevitable, environmentalists can try killing Bitcoin - go for it. No one is stopping you.
- Qwertious 6y agoBy this same logic, we can ignore Bill Gates saying COVID is bad. Or that literal cancer is bad, for that matter. I don't see how this logic is useful.
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- whoisninja 6y agoI never said ignore anything. Whatever matters to you, look into it - don't take other people's hot takes. You might be able to have better understanding in certain things that matter to you than Bill Gates or xyz.