From: solitude439@rcn.com   
      
   The following article comes from the Mi2G Intelligence Unit.  Windows   
   Zealots: take notice to what is said about Windows security...   
      
   London, UK - 2 November 2004, 02:30 GMT - The most comprehensive study ever   
   undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence Unit over 12 months reveals that the   
   world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating   
   system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD   
   (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin. This is   
   good news for Apple Computers(AAPL) whose shares have outperformed the   
   benchmark NASDAQ, S&P and Dow indices as well as Microsoft (MSFT) by over   
   100% in the last six months on the back of revived sales and profits. The   
   last twelve months have witnessed the deadliest annual period in terms of   
   malware - virus, worm and trojan - proliferation targeting Windows based   
   machines in which over 200 countries and tens of millions of computers   
   worldwide have been infected month-in month-out.   
      
   This continues an over two decade record of Apple providing the safest   
   OS on the computer market. It also demonstrates the importance of the   
   Open Source community. It has succeeded in the case of BSD and Darwin   
   where strictly proprietary OSes have failed. Mac OS X is also well known   
   as the most user-friendly UNIX GUI yet created.   
      
   To quote the alert's conclusion:   
      
   "More and more smart individuals, government agencies and corporations are   
   shifting towards Apple and BSD environments in 2004 ... There is an   
   accelerating paradigm shift visible in 2004 and busy professionals have   
   spotted the benefits of Apple and BSD because they don't have the time to   
   cope with umpteen flavours of Linux or to wait for Microsoft's Longhorn when   
   Windows XP has proved to be a stumbling block in some well chronicled   
   instances."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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