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Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-tread-on-me dept.

exeme writes "Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analyzed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix, and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits."

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  1. Actively Dangerous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Using Ubuntu is also actively dangerous to your anal virginity.

  2. Re:warez? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Duh. Linux is made up of nothing but warezed commercial software, most from Microsoft. Everyone knows that.

  3. Re:Why? by Minwee · · Score: 0, Troll

    The term "illegal" was used to mean "Software which is being used in a manner which is not allowed by its owners and in many cases is expressly disallowed by the license agreement". Automatix was conceived so that it could violate the licenses of almost everything it installed and Ubuntu wouldn't have to.