AOPA Flight Planner - Microsoft only?

Get real. Microsoft is targeted because Microsoft is the target. If 98%
of the world was running Unix, Linux, or some Apple OS, the hackers
would go after them. The problem is everyone jumping onto the latest OS,
making it easy to target "your prey".

Andrew Gideon wrote:

Jim Fisher wrote:


(who loves a Mac and Linux but can't function in reality without Windoze)


The reason you cannot is because companies/groups like AOPA waste time and
money developing platform specific products because the programmers don't
know any better. Enough time and money is wasted on Microsoft viruses that
anyone interested in economy should at least permit, if not encourage,
migration to more robust - or at least more diverse - platforms.

I do that. When Apple finally joined the UNIX world, it became a *lot*
easier.

But here we find an organization of which I'm a member working in precisely
the opposite direction. Annoying.

- Andrew

A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

We all aren't
forced to use an operating system from Micro$oft, so why should we be
forced to use a Micro$oft only-based application?

Someone is forcing you to use their flight planner?

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

On 3/18/04 10:06 PM, in article , "Peter
Duniho" wrote:

They are saying that it's possible to care about safe computing without
listening to a bunch of rabid fanatics such as yourself.

Pete



Andrew isn't even close to a rabid Mac fanatic on the basis of what he's
posted here.
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G.R. Patterson III wrote:



A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

We all aren't
forced to use an operating system from Micro$oft, so why should we be
forced to use a Micro$oft only-based application?

Someone is forcing you to use their flight planner?

No, but I'm not happy with an organization I support promoting a monoculture
(and a sickly one at that). That is not safe computing.

- Andrew

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
news:BC7FD46C.66F2%jeffbREMOVE@REMOVEwizardofdraws .com...
Andrew isn't even close to a rabid Mac fanatic on the basis of what he's
posted here.

Of course he is. Anyone silly enough to claim that using a Mac is in and of
itself safe computing (or that using a Windows machine in and of itself is
not) is by definition a rabid Mac fanatic.

Of course, most Mac users are rabid Mac fanatics. It's the only way Apple
could have hoped to have survived under their business model.

yes, it's been brought to AOPA's attention.

And ignored by AOPA. Not even the courtesy of an email from
them.

Peter Duniho wrote:
"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
Andrew isn't even close to a rabid Mac fanatic on the basis of what he's
posted here.

Of course he is. Anyone silly enough to claim that using a Mac is in and of
itself safe computing (or that using a Windows machine in and of itself is
not) is by definition a rabid Mac fanatic.

Of course, most Mac users are rabid Mac fanatics. It's the only way Apple
could have hoped to have survived under their business model.

Perhaps I missed something. Where did Andrew state he was a Mac
user?

Me? I only use Unix, so I'm even more left out.

If the market was worth the development cost then they would do it. It is
all about money. No one gives a #*&^( about your opinion that one OS is
'better' than another.

Last I looked, AOPA was based in the United States, not some lunatic's idea
of a socialist paradise that requires equal effort be spent on all operating
systems, no matter how few people use each one.

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
gonline.com...

Especially given what's going on with viruses, worms, zombie machines, and
the like, requiring that AOPA members used one particular unsafe platform
to exercise an organization benefit seems foolish.


It is outrageous that the writers of these viruses, worms, zombie machines,
and the like are mostly ignoring your operating system. Their software
instead only targets the prevailing monoculture, treating you like you did
not exist. This is blatant discrimination against you, suggesting that you
are too unimportant to be worth their time. I suggest that we demand that
hackers and other criminals give all operating systems equal time, or we
double their sentences when they are caught.

"Blanche" wrote in message
...
Perhaps I missed something. Where did Andrew state he was a Mac
user?

He's made a couple of comments implying that already. However, I'll grant
you...he could (also) be a rabid Linux fanatic. Same attitude, different
business model.

Don't get me wrong, I think MacOS and Linux are great options, and each has
lots to offer in their own way. It's just that when someone goes around
claiming that those options are inherently secure while Windows is
inherently not secure, it's obvious the hamster's not engaged upstairs.
This usually happens as a result of being a rabid fanatic (scares the
hamster).

CJ's posts sum up the issue nicely.

Pete