[Info-vax] One possible market for VMS: secure credit card

[seasoned_geek]

On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 12:51:31 PM UTC-5, Bob Koehler wrote:

>    I don't buy it.
> 
>    Back then Mac OS had a virus problem.  Everyone knew it.  And back
>    then UNIX came with that reputation even before we saw it. Even though
>    RISC wasn't out yet so a great many people were doing UNIX on VAXen.

That was before people paid companies like Gartner to say "proprietary bad, open systems good." And since they classified Microsoft Windows as an "open system" I will give you three guesses as to who paid the most to have those companies say that.

How can anyone forget the "independent study" <cough cough hack hack> which _proved_ to management everywhere it really was cheaper to pay Microsoft for all its products than to "just use the free stuff."

I get beat up for it all of the time, but the problem started in the 90s. That was the era we heard everyone from radio DJs to TV talking heads claim "It's the 90s, you don't have to take responsibility for anything." At that point, doing the right thing didn't matter. The only thing that mattered was having to take responsibility for it.