Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft becoming 'software police,' say users
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> | Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out
> | of Australia that outflanked one of the company's touted security
> | features in Windows Vista, by having the program's digital
> | certificate revoked....
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9029161
Shouldn't it be up to the /users/ as to what software, if any, runs on
/their/ computers.
Oh but I forgot ... when you run Windows, you're only a /tenant/ in your
computer. You own nothing.
It's a bit like WGA, where one is expected to "check in" every so often,
like a prisoner on parole. Merely /paying/ for the software is not
enough apparently, one has to continuously prove one's innocence in the
face of being presumed guilty.
Well that's just the Genuine Disadvantages® of Windows.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| 'When it comes to knowledge, "ownership" just doesn't make sense'
| ~ Cory Doctorow, The Guardian. http://tinyurl.com/22bgx8
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