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The Microsoft Protection Racket

Posted by Zonk on from the friday-afternoon-fightin-words dept.

bonch writes "Dvorak writes about the 'Microsoft protection racket' in his latest column--'charging real money for any sort of add-on, service, or new product that protects clients against flaws in its own operating system.' Dvorak argues that someone took a look at the expense of Microsoft's monthly 'Patch Tuesday' and decided to find a way to make money from it instead of fix the code (e.g., abandoning the use of the registry)." I enjoy salt with my Dvorak, but that's just me.

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  1. Re:UBUNTU=DEBIAN DONE RIGHT by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You think so, eh? Just try to install the latest version of Postfix and see how the delightful packaging mechanisms go for a toilet float.

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  2. Re:UBUNTU=DEBIAN DONE RIGHT by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No, I just wasted three days trying to get Ubuntu to work with a compiled version of Postfix 2.2. I tried the Debian package, but got into dependency hell. In the end I stuck with Slackware, which, while having a pretty primitive packaging system, at least was able to comprehend that something was answering on port 25 and not demand any more of it than that.

    Wake me up when Ubuntu figures out what real system administrators need.

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    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  3. Re:I can write on PC Magazine too! by Stalks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have mod points but someone already beat me to marking parent Troll. =]