I mean what I said. From what I know bugtraq keeps tracks of bugs found in a distributions and not the Linux Kernel. That is to say that with the increasing number of programs included in newer releases, more and more bugs will be found. And some of the bugs found are nonsensical to me because I never use those program. But I like advisories because they tell me what is available and installed in the distributions that I am using so that I can removed them saving harddisk space. So moody (of course that because he is using MS windows too much) conveniently ignore that. No sane linux users run all the services in a distribution and users are free to remove the software unless it is a kernel problem which I am sure will most likely be fixed before I even heard of it. If I used a floppy distribution, I wonder how many security bugs are there. On the other hand, CAN we remove those security holes in windows by removing certain software? Can't anyone sees that most of the security holes are from softwares that are optional and are installed because the distributors got nothing better to do (either that or in microsoft paychecks). If I installed a windows machine with software abc from DEF company tat have 123 buffer overflow exploits availabe, would they say that windows has so and so + 123 exploits?
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"Without the guarantee of that protection, a Warner Brothers executive testified in court, the industry would never have begun releasing movies in digital format." Erm, VCD is an analog format???
Otherwise, this is a waste of time. You can put it in a worse way. It is not a waste of time. It is a saving of time. There is no need for me go to down to the record shops like Towers, HMV to broswe.... Furthermore, I get to save the money. Now I can afford to donate to the EFF.
Me will boycott audio cd from RIAA related companies. Sure, it does not affect them much. But it affects me a lot. I will have much more money to spend.
I am appalled that there is currently no laws that requires companies to publish the software formats and hardware architectures. The rational for this is apparent. Let's say that we bought a DVD. And maybe says 20 years down the road, no one is producing DVD players and we still want to read our cd, then what do we do? Nothing! It is to say that we don't even have the rights to read the DVD that we spend our money on. Does the consumers has no protection against that? If there are publish hardware architecture and software formats, at least people are able to try and manufacture a DVD players themselves and write the software so that they are able to read the DVD. It is time that laws must be made to protect the consumers. The consumer should have the right to consume what they spend their money on. Too long the evil behemoth corporations has taken too much from us. The consumers. It is NOT a matter of Linux vs DVD. It is a matter of ALL the consumers in the world against all those money sucking leeches. Another example I can give is that most people now use the M$ Word format. If they want to change to another software, they have much difficulties. There is clearly no other softwares that is able to read the Word format perfectly. So it does means that I do not have the right to read my documents once I stop using M$ Word anymore. So is it logical? And is it right? Ask Yourself.
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I mean what I said. From what I know bugtraq keeps tracks of bugs found in a distributions and not the Linux Kernel. That is to say that with the increasing number of programs included in newer releases, more and more bugs will be found. And some of the bugs found are nonsensical to me because I never use those program. But I like advisories because they tell me what is available and installed in the distributions that I am using so that I can removed them saving harddisk space. So moody (of course that because he is using MS windows too much) conveniently ignore that. No sane linux users run all the services in a distribution and users are free to remove the software unless it is a kernel problem which I am sure will most likely be fixed before I even heard of it. If I used a floppy distribution, I wonder how many security bugs are there. On the other hand, CAN we remove those security holes in windows by removing certain software? Can't anyone sees that most of the security holes are from softwares that are optional and are installed because the distributors got nothing better to do (either that or in microsoft paychecks). If I installed a windows machine with software abc from DEF company tat have 123 buffer overflow exploits availabe, would they say that windows has so and so + 123 exploits?
"Without the guarantee of that protection, a Warner Brothers executive testified in court, the industry would never have begun releasing movies in digital format." Erm, VCD is an analog format???
Otherwise, this is a waste of time. You can put it in a worse way. It is not a waste of time. It is a saving of time. There is no need for me go to down to the record shops like Towers, HMV to broswe.... Furthermore, I get to save the money. Now I can afford to donate to the EFF.
Me will boycott audio cd from RIAA related companies. Sure, it does not affect them much. But it affects me a lot. I will have much more money to spend.
I don't understand about all the stuff that is going on here. Why don't someone just show me a few linux virii/viruses? Otherwise, what epidemic?
I am appalled that there is currently no laws that requires companies to publish the software formats and hardware architectures. The rational for this is apparent. Let's say that we bought a DVD. And maybe says 20 years down the road, no one is producing DVD players and we still want to read our cd, then what do we do? Nothing! It is to say that we don't even have the rights to read the DVD that we spend our money on. Does the consumers has no protection against that? If there are publish hardware architecture and software formats, at least people are able to try and manufacture a DVD players themselves and write the software so that they are able to read the DVD. It is time that laws must be made to protect the consumers. The consumer should have the right to consume what they spend their money on. Too long the evil behemoth corporations has taken too much from us. The consumers. It is NOT a matter of Linux vs DVD. It is a matter of ALL the consumers in the world against all those money sucking leeches. Another example I can give is that most people now use the M$ Word format. If they want to change to another software, they have much difficulties. There is clearly no other softwares that is able to read the Word format perfectly. So it does means that I do not have the right to read my documents once I stop using M$ Word anymore. So is it logical? And is it right? Ask Yourself.