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Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the makes-you-wonder-what-companies-say-yes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Liz Upton, Director of Communications for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has just published an email where someone was asking how much would it cost them for the Foundation to install malware on its devices in the form of a .EXE file. The email sender was asking for a PPI [price per install] quote.

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  1. Re: .EXE file? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows has a perfectly fine package manager. When you want to install a package you simply double click setup.exe and hit enter until the window disappears. Uninstalls are easy to, you just reinstall Windows and install every package except for the one you don't want.

  2. Re: Okay... by NotInfinitumLabs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it? Newer Linux distros typically come with systemd, which many users consider to be malware because it's unwanted and can have a very negative impact. So it's not like Linux is any better in reality, I'm sad to say.

    Holy shit, why can't people shut up about systemd? You people seem to bring it up at EVERY single opportunity, even if it's REMOTELY related.