Re: Word Non-Clones (Was: Re: (OT) Mailing Lists reflect onDevelopers)

From: Erik Richard Sørensen (kml.ers@MAIL1.STOFANET.DK)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 07:19:58 AEST


Hei Ben

That is not correct! - Remember the time, when WordPerfect was _the_
wordprocessor in the big struggle/battle with Microsoft Word 5.x? - There
was still a lot more vira for the MSWD than for the WPfct - and still 99.9%
of all these vira were/are only on the Wintel platform....

This has nothing to do with marketshare, but with the ease of accessing and
destroying through the way that the programs are built. - But of course
more copies might be infected, because there are more copies around.

Cheers, Erik Richard

Benjamin Cramer wrote:

> Robert B. Waltz wrote:
>
> >it has a macro language which is safe to use, because there aren't
> >10 million or so virus writers targeting it.
>
> Theorem: the number of viruses targeting a computer program is directly
> proportional to that program's market share.  One good reason to hope MS
> maintains strong sales ;->

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