____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 06 May 2008 00:49 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, William Poaster
> <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 05 May 2008 23:40:31 +0100
> <pan.2008.05.05.22.40.31.886665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, 05 May 2008 17:14:14 -0500, chrisv wrote:
>>
>>> Homer wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-
>>> Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
>>>
>>> "End users have little to say, and no real choice in the matter."
>>>
>>> Choice? Who would want choice?
>>
>> Here's another M$ Windoze "feature":-
>> Microsoft Discloses Government Backdoor on Windows Operating Systems
>> http://www.infiltrated.net/?p=91
>>
>
> Nice of them to admit it. :-P And it sounds like they
> didn't really *intend* to admit it, but someone botched
> a press release.
>
> Ye gods. *hunts for copy of _1984_*
And Scoble once slammed for for saying that, around 2005. Who has the last
laugh? That clown was drinking Microsoft's Kool-Aid.
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