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Re: [News] The Telegraph on Free Open Source Software

  • Subject: Re: [News] The Telegraph on Free Open Source Software
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:17:37 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Freeware and shareware has its dark side though and there are some
> | rogue programs around, especially among the many utilities that
> | purport to keep PCs healthy. Some report false positives or
> | deliberately infect a PC in an attempt to frighten users into
> | paying for expensive (and often useless) repair programs.

This is one of the many reasons that Free Software is not about "cost",
it's about the Source. This isn't a luxury, it's an absolute necessity.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.9-91.fc7
 12:16:24 up 9 days,  9:09,  3 users,  load average: 1.10, 1.00, 1.00

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