Opinion: Who wouldn't trust a company that hid built-in spyware on every
Windows-based PC in the land?
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| Oh wait, come to think of it, didn't Microsoft once cause Windows to
| produce fake error messages if a user was running DR-DOS instead of
| MS-DOS?
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| While they never admitted to it, they did finally end up paying Caldera
| Systems, one of the ancestors of today's SCO, approximately $60 million
| to make the resulting lawsuit go away.
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| [...]
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| Here's the point. For over a year, Microsoft has planted a program on
| every modern Windows-powered PC that reported home every day. They don't
| have an intelligent reason, never mind a good one, for this move. And,
| they never told anyone that they were doing this.
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| [...]
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| I've been using Linux for my main desktop for years, and it's
| revelations like this one that makes me damn glad that I do.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1974911,00.asp
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