On Monday, January 31, 2011 12:19:44 pm Jernej Simončič did opine: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:24:37 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: > > Though giving M$ access is the definition of compromised as far as I > > am concerned. > > What kind of access, and what do you mean by "phone home"? If you're > that paranoid about Windows Update, you can always prevent the service > from running (and it's easy to shut up the notification centre as > well).
Oh oh, he's been drinking the koolaid. What we FOSS people are objecting to is the WGA that gets installed with SP2 I believe it was, and this thing does phone home on every reboot to check if its a legally purchased and registered copy, AND that it is running on the same hardware it was originally installed on. Change a hard drive because it went face down in the pool, and you have to buy _another_ copy of windows. And if someone publishes a way to defeat this "feature", they find a DMCA take down notice from M$ the next day. And windows people wonder why us Linux folks hate windows. We don't hate windows per sei, but we don't trust it either. We aren't pirates, but I have been known to lose my cool when, in trying to rescue a company windows box, some damned worm has renamed a centrally needed windows dll and all I wanted was a clean copy of it. But I was a pirate, despite having all the original paperwork and serial numbers to prove I had a legal copy of NT-3.51, I had to buy another copy to get that file. Microsoft has well earned the enmity of millions of its users, users who do not understand there are alternatives available. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> Sendmail may be safely run set-user-id to root. -- Eric Allman, "Sendmail Installation Guide" _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
