Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 13:53 UTC, submitted by IndigoJo
Alcibiades' recent article hit some sensitive nerves. One of our readers wrote a retort, stating: "The reader will notice that this author glosses over two important issues in attacking the Mac community. One of these is that Windows, at least since 95, has always been notorious for its reliability and security issues. He does not mention the 'Blue Screen of Death' even once. He does not mention the fact that, to run Windows reliably, you need anti-virus software which costs extra (unless it came bundled with the machine), and uses extra system resources. He does not mention the continual updates, which as time goes on, detract from the performance of Windows - or even that the last fresh Windows OS was released as long ago as 2001."
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Or, you know, staying somewhat up to date and having moved to RHEL when the free RH support was cut like 3 years ago...
There's no excuse for not being able to upgrade in a period of 5 years. If you can't upgrade in that time that system should be so well insulated that it won't matter. Otherwise: You have an IT problem.
Important systems that you can't upgrade in a few months and would need to be kept up to date that quickly are bad signs...