__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:09 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> AVID: A Trend In Motion; Firefox Rocks; IT Without Gates
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>> | I was asked last week why I keep changing the D-word in AVID e.g.
>> | Antivirus Is Dead, Doomed, Dying and Dysfunctional. To be honest,
>> | it's a cheap and obscure trick; here's a tortuous explanation.
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>> | I am running a campaign to bring down the $3.7 billion AV industry...
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>> http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=13337
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> Thats a little unfair I thought. The likes of Norton and McAfee were
> essential at one time for the MS and there fore the business world, as well
> as home users.
Microsoft created an opportunity for an industry to emerge, but the
programmers could have earned a living doing something that would further
advance society rather than fix or compensate for some other vendor's bugs.
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