Obviously, not all the business people who made the "decision" (based on WHAT? Marketing not technology! YIKES and they want to run our governments and hospitals -- God please help us!) to use M$ software. Perhaps they are the ones who are in more need of being prosecuted, not the ones who made the "Love bug". Or maybe it's BG who should be for false advertising. AFAICS, virioids (viri, troj. horses, worms, etc) are going to happen, as information follows the same rules as biology (eats, sleeps, reproduces, etc) which I think are determined by the "totalarian rule of physics": if any thing can happen, it must! The greater issue is not the petty commercialism (gonna get rants on this, I think) -- let the courts do that, but education. Should not people learn that using M$ software is like having (unsafe) sex with a prostitute -- you give her the $$ and you get the disease.
RMS, Perhaps this is more practical than interesting or insightful, but so be it. Would it be possible for the FSF to set up a branch in Canada, so that those of us who live here could get a tax deductible donation? MEA
Gee, I thought I read somewhere that 7.0 was to come out in Feb. I was waiting for 7.1 for the bug fixes in 7.0 -- guess I'll continue with 6.0 patched.
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Obviously, not all the business people who made the "decision" (based on WHAT? Marketing not technology! YIKES and they want to run our governments and hospitals -- God please help us!) to use M$ software. Perhaps they are the ones who are in more need of being prosecuted, not the ones who made the "Love bug". Or maybe it's BG who should be for false advertising. AFAICS, virioids (viri, troj. horses, worms, etc) are going to happen, as information follows the same rules as biology (eats, sleeps, reproduces, etc) which I think are determined by the "totalarian rule of physics": if any thing can happen, it must! The greater issue is not the petty commercialism (gonna get rants on this, I think) -- let the courts do that, but education. Should not people learn that using M$ software is like having (unsafe) sex with a prostitute -- you give her the $$ and you get the disease.
RMS, Perhaps this is more practical than interesting or insightful, but so be it. Would it be possible for the FSF to set up a branch in Canada, so that those of us who live here could get a tax deductible donation? MEA
Gee, I thought I read somewhere that 7.0 was to come out in Feb. I was waiting for 7.1 for the bug fixes in 7.0 -- guess I'll continue with 6.0 patched.