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   XPost: alt.sad-people.microsoft.lovers, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, c   
   mp.sys.macintrash   
   XPost: microsoft.windows.crash.crash.crash   
   From: derekcurrie@mac.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Tim Smith  wrote:   
      
   > Can you find any security professional who takes Mi2G seriously?   
      
   Apparently there are a lot of people who have not taken mi2g seriously.   
   Read what they say in reply in their news alert. It is highly amusing,   
   and in your face:   
      
   >  For the record, neither mi2g Ltd nor the mi2g Intelligence   
   > Unit have a business relationship with Apple Computers and   
   > we do not own any shares in that corporation. Previously,   
   > the mi2g data for one month was considered to be too small   
   > a sample and not representative of the global environment   
   > within which different types of entities - micro, small,   
   > medium and large - exist. We have addressed those concerns   
   > in the new study. The critics were against the previous   
   > study which also came out in favour of Apple and BSD,   
   > because the entrenched supporters of Linux and Windows felt   
   > that mi2g was guilty of 'computing blasphemy'. In subsequent   
   > months, mi2g's reputation was damaged on search engines and   
   > bulletin boards. We would urge caution when reading   
   > negative commentary against mi2g, which may have been   
   > clandestinely funded, aided or abetted by a vendor or a   
   > special interest group.   
      
   Blasphemy!   
      
   What security professional can afford to ignore the facts? What serious   
   security professional would discard such an important study only for the   
   sake of politics and misplaced loyalties? Do you perhaps wish to make   
   money off security processes that are entirely redundant in BSD/MOSX? We   
   all know the high cost of supporting Windows boxes, relative to a Mac.   
   Plenty of the fervor to flame Mac and promote Windows is only to support   
   bad habits in the business community, habits that typically provide   
   paychecks to otherwise unneeded IT support personnel.   
      
   Finding the safest computer OS is more important that warz mongering. My   
   point stands, as does that of this news alert, no matter what mud you   
   have to sling at mi2g.   
      
   :-Derek   
      
   --   
   "To create a new standard, it takes something thats not   
   just a little bit different, it takes something thats   
   really new and really captures peoples imagination and the   
   Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only   
   one that meets that standard." --Bill Gates   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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