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Windows firewall squeezes into USB key (LinuxDevices)Windows firewall squeezes into USB key (LinuxDevices)Posted May 30, 2007 12:40 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (guest, #31386)In reply to: Windows firewall squeezes into USB key (LinuxDevices) by irios Parent article: Windows firewall squeezes into USB key (LinuxDevices)
Well, he has one thing right: It is misnamed. It should be called "Linux firewall to protect MS Windows", or "Firewall for MS Windows".
"Windows firewall" implies that it's not running Linux, but MS Windows instead. (For the people who disagree: I sell diamond rings, only $10. Want one?)
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Windows firewall squeezes into USB key (LinuxDevices) Posted May 30, 2007 20:31 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] It's a firewall for Windows computers, hence Windows Firewall. Makes perfect sense to me.
"Linux firewall to protect MS Windows?" I can tell you're not in marketing! Maybe DSL modems should be called, "Small Linux boxes with modems to connect to DSLAMs?" ;-)
Windows firewall squeezes into USB key (LinuxDevices) Posted May 31, 2007 1:02 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link] Oh boy, we're leaving such a mess behind for the future archaeologists...
"'Windows firewall'? What do they mean with that, it makes no sense."
"A wall of fire with windows in it..?"
"No, we researched it for a decade, and the best we could come up with is that it's a small computer connected to a bigger one which does something the big one could do, but doesn't do well enough."
"And what has that do with windows and firewalls?"
"Part of the software running on the big machine is named 'Windows', you don't want to hear what a firewall does."
"Really? Come on.."
"Well, they had a nice thing which would connect all the machines they have together, as far as we know all firewalls do is hampering those connections."
"So they made a device that makes another device function less effective, and named it after software running on the other machine?"
"Pretty much, and it's a damn expensive thing too."
"That doesn't make any sense at all, no wonder that civilisation perished."
"Yeah, they'd must have marketing."
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