On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:10:59 EST, John Stracke
<jstracke(_at_)centivinc(_dot_)com> said:
Sean Jones wrote:
I understand where I went wrong. But I doubt that any commercial enterprise
would want to block access to MS servers in RL.
Well, it'd be a good way to inhibit people from sneaking Windows into
the company.
And in addition, not all the net is a "commercial enterprise". There's a very
large worldwide presence in the gov/edu/org arenas - and a *LOT* of those
organizations have political, philosophical, or other reasons for blocking
Microsoft. I'm sure there's privately held companies that can afford to have
similar views - and I'm waiting for a shareholder suit against the board of a
publicly held company for decreasing profits by continuing to permit the use a
certain MUA even though it's one of the leading causes of virus and worm
propagation...
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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