Re: Virus

[TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@cruzers.com>]

> Real men don't use business machines named after a fruit!   ;-)

I've never been bothered by that concept, as it is a refuge for those 
who prefer masochism.

But I have wondered about an operating system that claims it's close 
enough to being Mac like that most people will accept it.  Why do 
people rush to an imperfect imitation? Marketing!  I've always wondered 
about people who feel marketing form is more important than 
functionality, and those unable to differentiate between the two.

Windows is the choice of 99% of the IT groups because it maintains the 
impenetrable mysteries of the high priests of IT.  These priests are  
continually called upon to make magic that keeps the machines mere 
mortals depend upon functional and holy data secure.

Make a technology sufficiently complicated and those who maintain it 
will multiply in numbers and be rewarded richly as those who depend 
upon them fear the consequences of  system crash.  Men and Women can 
pour out their lives, brooding over specters  of non responding systems 
and data loss.  Men can wear away their lives searching for the kernel 
of truth they think can be found can be found in the disordered ravings 
of a Microsoft marketing manager.

TeriAnn J. Wakeman
      Apple Evangelist 1990 to 1998


TeriAnn J. Wakeman
      Marigold Ltd.
      www.marigoldltd.com

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