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Re: maariv and other papers
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Stas Bekman wrote:
> I think for linux the most important thing is to be in press, doesn't
> matter whether they say that's easy to maintain or good for hackers,
Really ? In the country where I come from the media used a lot of this
before the police touched a dissident. A recommended tactic in
psychological warfare. The guy I buy used books from, hearing of Linux (he
englishized the intro for linux-lp 0.2), calls me a hacker. Hmm.
FYI one of the major concerns of any serious company is, to fight any
slander to its name as soon as possible, and to make this in such a way,
that even a later analysis of the records of these statements, will make
the company look clean and well.
> Both sides will drive more traffic to linux sites -> more future linux
> users -> Less microbuz users.
Maybe, but I don't think that anyone wants the user list of linux-il on
the list of 'dubious persons' of all law enforcement agencies in this
country and abroad.
> Another thing, think of it another way: what people are concerned about
> what system to you to crack something or what system not to use in order
> to be not crackable. And this is the case! Linux was the medium and not
> the tired dog that allowed the thief in !!!
>
> The terrible thing was when no one hear about 'Linux'.
Why ? Penguins live in herds, but there are only penguins inside any
penguin herd. Proselytizing religions have been known to cause lots of
victims in a historical perspective.
> When I tried to bring Intel to sponsor our party the people who was in
> charge of this asked what is Linux, is it a program?
> That hurts.
Why ? You don't really think that we are so famous that large companies
roll out their carpets for us...
> But writing that Linux has been used for hackering is great, think how
> many kids will now jump to yahoo and type in the magic 'linux' word, and
> they will not beleive to find :
> Yahoo 633
> AltaVista 331 316
> Webcrawler 17 285
> Hotbot 1 387 876 - It's 1.4 million!!! Think about it
Let's get this explained for lurkers and posterity: Linux was not written
for the purpose of hacking. It was written as a UNIX clone. It is very
difficult, if not impossible for an uneducated person to hack (let alone
use, unfortunately) anything in any stock distribution Linux. People who
use Linux to hack include various changes to the kernel and to networking
code, that make raw packet access possible to do 'hacking'. This assumes
that a real hacker using Linux knows at least the following:
- C programming, at mother tongue level, preferrably above
- Kernel hacking & configuration + compilation + debugging
- UNIX system administration
- Network operation experience
- TCP/IP knowledge at mother tongue level
- The willingness to break into computers that he does not own, and that
display signs like 'unauthorized access forbidden', even to their own
users at login, knowing that he can get caught and serve in jail for that
etc.
This is not the image of the average Linux user. It shall not be possible
for a newspaper (or a few newspapers) to build and maintain this
stereoptype about Linux in the eyes of the public.
FreeBSD never had this kind of image as far as I can tell, and it did not
hurt it at all.
> HotBot at 'windows NT' returned 1 337 282 hits
> 'windows 95' still beats linux with 1 939 665 hits
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> So the more people see only the word 'linux' the more future users we will
> get...
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> Shachar and Nir how about employing the ad account at hyperbanner to just
> advertisize the linux with big yellow on black 'LINUX' :-)
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