In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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wrote
on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:16:43 +0000
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> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>> on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:34:42 +0100
>> <fs1gml$cvt$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
>
>>>>> Shouldn't it be up to the /users/ as to what software, if any,
>>>>> runs on /their/ computers.
>>>>
>>>> That's just so 80's.
>>>
>>> Did you read what this "utility" did? It allowed the loading of non
>>> trusted code into the kernel.
>
> "Non trusted" by /whom/ exactly?
Can't be too careful nowadays. Someone might actually
innovate something that Microsoft can't control, and then
where would we be?
;-)
>
> Is there some particular reason why I, or anyone else, should trust
> Microsoft, but not other vendors?
Uh, because Bill Gates has such a sexy voice?
No, that can't be it.
>
> Indeed, I've found considerably /more/ reason to /not/ trust Microsoft:
>
> http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want
> http://slated.org/vista_is_worlds_most_expensive_spyware
Well, the first presumably has been with us since 1995,
and certainly IE 4 "innovated" the notion of updates
through IE, probably in 1996 -- I'd have to look.
As for the second -- I'd have to look. Not all that
surprising. However, there was some controversy at the
time when Microsoft scanned one's system for competitive
software -- and that was some number of years back.
AFAIK it kinda died out rather quietly.
>
>>> Duh!
>
> Yes Rhonda, you are an idiot.
OK...which one of you hid my song crowbar? :-P
>
>> And who manages the trusting?
>
> That would be /us/, the users, on /our/ computers.
In an ideal world, certainly.
>
> I think Rhonda and MS both need to research the meaning of "trust".
>
> http://www.lafkon.net/tc/
>
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