i do say so.
without meaning to cause offence, let me point out:
you implied, in effect, that calling somebody stupid was denying their right to an opinion. This is a total fallacy. In fact, by attempting to restrict somebody's right to say that somebody is stupid, you yourself are saying that that person is not allowed to express
their opinion.
Bottom line: if people don't want other people to say they are stupid (due to them not being thick skinned enough to cope with it), then people shouldn't verbalise their stupid opinions in the first place!
also, one more answer, and i think this one will go in the FAq, as i have seen it asked a few times (if it's not in already that is!)
quote:
Originally posted by TheGreatPoo:
Unless I am wrong (which I probably am) I think that the guy talking to "LinuxMan" in the first post has a point. If Linux were as popular as MS there would be many more viruses out there for Linux. Am I missing something?
Maybe there would be more linux viruses, however i suspect not. The reason i expect that viruses would not really be written for linux is that in linux, a program can not modify any system files, or any other users' files, when that program is run normally. Only when a program is run by the administrator, or somebody with priveleges to access certain other files, can those files be modified. So if a program for windows is set to replace all your system files with duds, one by one, and you get it in an email and open it with outlook (which runs executables in emails by default so i heard) then you are stuffed, due to windows having no real permissioning setup (not one that works anyway), a program trying to do the same thing in linux (even if you do run it, which is not default on any mail reader i have heard of in linux) will generate error messages (at the very worst) and exit, unless it is run as a priveleged user, or as root. And you shouldn't be checking your emails as root anyway.
[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: Calum-21.2 ]
