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Open Letter to a Digital World

Posted by michael on from the no-one's-listening-la-la-la dept.

jg21 writes "Exasperated after spending 5 hours removing spyware and trojans from his wife's Windows PC, sysadmin Chris Spencer has written an impassioned Open Letter to a Digital World. In the letter he reviews the 'elephants in the closet' - i.e. unfixed bugs and glaring security vulnerabilities - that Microsoft in his view hopes ordinary users will ignore, including some discussed in previous Slashdot stories."

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  1. We are so much smarter than the rest of the world by Cold+Winter+Days · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because we don't use Windows.

  2. Re:We are so much smarter than the rest of the wor by Cold+Winter+Days · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is about our future. Look at the bigger picture. Will we still have access to any kind of software without bowing down to the Mighty Bill? Don't get distracted by some file copy operation taking too long or other unimportant stuff. Fight for the cause!

  3. Re:I don't get it. by smallfeet · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    So what, has MS outsources the shills now also? You would think this would require native english speakers on this forum at least.

  4. Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The nonsense bastardisation is a purely US construction.

    The US construction employs a subtle irony that is beyond the average Benny Hill limey.

    Sorry for any confusion. Go back to your Dame Edna, or whomever is the Britvestite of the week.

  5. Re:I got it a long time ago by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    More on the pro-Linux side, of course, because most people here are a) geeks, b) more informed

    See? That's it, right there. It's this "I'm right, you're wrong" mentality. If somebody were to come in here and say, "You know, I just don't like Linux at all. I much prefer Windows," he'd be shouted down as a fool, or as a paid Microsoft shill.

    And the ones who say that they don't like Linux at all and prefer Mac OS X are dismissed as "fanboys," whatever that means.

    The problem here is that there's this self-reinforcing cult of personality around Linux on this site. And you're participating in it. Whether you mean to or not.

    I'm going to say something now, and I want you think notice how you react to it: I think Linux stinks. I've used it, extensively, and while it does have its merits, I think it stinks. Things that should be easy are hard, none of the applications I use every day will run on it, alternatives suggested to me (Firefox over Safari, Thunderbird over Mail, Gimp over Photoshop, nothing over InDesign) don't stack up, and it's just plain ugly to look at all day.

    That's my opinion. But on this site, that's the sort of thing that people will argue with me about.

    Slashdot: Where opinions can be wrong.

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    I write in my journal
  6. Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off a pray for the rapture, you big fat cunt.