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Re: Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out

__/ [ ml2mst ] on Saturday 17 March 2007 04:10 \__

> On 17 mrt, 00:28, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> __/ [ Phil Da Lick! ] on Friday 16 March 2007 18:38 \__
>>
>>
>>
>> > Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>> >>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm
>>
>> >> /quote
>> >> Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European
>> >> business security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the
>> >> code itself has pieces missing.
>> >> "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. It's not
>> >> a bad product, but bits and pieces are missing," said Edelmann.
>> >> /unquote
>>
>> >> Yup. Thats it. "Buying products" is "innovation" The MS type
>>
>> > "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products"
>>
>> > Couldn't have said it better myself.
>>
>> OneCare will be remembered as one destructive Microsoft failure that
>> follows others, which did not necessarily /sabotage/ people's desktop,
>> e.g. Zune.
> 
> Dream on Roy!
> 
> The Micro$haft Windopez fans will keep on using their horrible
> Operating System (or whatever it aims to be) to eternity.


I beg to differ. With increasing pressure, OEMs will soon have to accept the
fact that Linux has a market. Even my parents would gladly use Linux. They
just need some support, akin to the support they already get when Windows
gets b0rked.

Yesterday a colleague of mine asked me for help with SUSE 9.3. He hasn't
booted into that partition for a long time and he is finally willing to
explore it a little more profoundly.

 
> Believe me, I did my best convincing my friends, they should migrate
> to a proper and secure OS, but they won't.


Approach them when the OS that they currently use angers them. Betrayal by
software is soon forgotten, but when it recurs too often, the camel's back
cracks. Vista is the last straw to some. A few others have recently lost
their mail archives because of OneCare, which is apparently needed for an
inherently-insecure OS.


> I still don't have the slightest idea why, because to install the
> latest distro's, no competence is required at all. Even the greatest
> idiot is able to install a GNU/Linux distro these days.


Of course. And remember that we fit Linux onto a machine that was designed
for Windows, which makes it much more of a challenge, at least on paper.


> Probably they are somehow addicted to their viruses and spyware,
> pretty much like hard drugs :D
> 
> The worst of all, is that they take the spyware, provided by Microsoft
> for gratitude.


The cycle of punishment that technologies like WGA and DRM bring will lead to
no gratitude. Profiling of users, which relies on spyware, will become
scarier in years to come. I can't recall the name of that Jim Carrey film
where he's being watched all the time and he virtually lives in a corporate
bubble that delivers not just ads but an entire lifestyle pushed onto him.
it's a burden. No person wants to become a servant/robot to whom access to
data (even your own photos and music collection) gets limited by corporate
power; To whom prices are something that's forced, so you must simply work
as hard as the companies require, in order to be able to pay what they
charge for computing. It's means of controlling people.

Companies work for themselves whereas governments elected by people ought to
serve our own needs. But in many cases the companies take over the agendas
of the government, lobby in its support, make use of nepotism, and change
laws. The role of the government is declining in the sense that it's there
to serve a few companies (minority), rather than people who are eligible to
vote (majority).


> With kind regards,
> 
> Marti van Lin (alias the ML2MST)
> Maastricht (NL)


Don't lose morale. You happen to live in a place where the ordinary citizen
still has a voice. At the moment, the opposition party over here seeks to
mimic what continental Europe is working towards. I don't think that the
number of proxies, pressure groups, and lobbying Microsoft has in Europe
(plenty of them) can overwhelm so many governments that are sick and tired
of predatory monopolies that globalise and destroy local SMEs, depriving the
local economy.

-- 
                ~~ Best wishes 

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