Anyone who knows how to install it will know how to uninstall it.
Well I have been seeing a number of comments like this... And thought I might point out that from my (albeit limited) experience, installing linux nowadays it not enough of a challenge to keep the idiots away.
At least with RH5.2 (if my memory is still with me) assuming you knew which country you were in and where to stick the cd, all you really had to do was hit 'workstation' and everything was done for you. And from what I hear RedHat isn't making the process any harder...
At my old school there were more than one hacker wannabes that did just that. Then they would strut around for a few days, until they changed something and X/sendmail/kernel/whatever would stop working. Now I will give them credit for being persistant, I lost count of how many times they repeated the install/break/reinstall process (Not to say that I have never done that before myself). But in the end pretty much every one of them gave up.
Now I will say right now that I have never deleted linux to install windows, so I don't know first hand how much of a pain it is. But if the MS article is to be believed... Well... I honestly have no idea how those guys managed it.
But whatever.. I personally would rather not have a bunch of clueless people running linux just to be 'k3wl' or whatever. I tend to think that those people deserve Windows.
And as to why MS posted the howto.. well I can very clearly picture a few of those people sending email to MS asking for just those instructions. Maybe people actually asked for it enough...
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Well I have been seeing a number of comments like this... And thought I might point out that from my (albeit limited) experience, installing linux nowadays it not enough of a challenge to keep the idiots away.
At least with RH5.2 (if my memory is still with me) assuming you knew which country you were in and where to stick the cd, all you really had to do was hit 'workstation' and everything was done for you. And from what I hear RedHat isn't making the process any harder...
At my old school there were more than one hacker wannabes that did just that. Then they would strut around for a few days, until they changed something and X/sendmail/kernel/whatever would stop working. Now I will give them credit for being persistant, I lost count of how many times they repeated the install/break/reinstall process (Not to say that I have never done that before myself). But in the end pretty much every one of them gave up.
Now I will say right now that I have never deleted linux to install windows, so I don't know first hand how much of a pain it is. But if the MS article is to be believed... Well... I honestly have no idea how those guys managed it.
But whatever..
I personally would rather not have a bunch of clueless people running linux just to be 'k3wl' or whatever. I tend to think that those people deserve Windows.
And as to why MS posted the howto.. well I can very clearly picture a few of those people sending email to MS asking for just those instructions. Maybe people actually asked for it enough...