There's nothing to stop someone else from using it; they would just have to create a software product that embeds IE, create a bunch of buzz and get thousands of people to download it and install it, and craft a site to exploit it.
Or, they could just find somebody else with a popular app that embeds IE, but with fewer resources that haven't patched around this bug.
Really, though, when you're talking about a product line, I don't see how the setup cost matters. It's not like a tech at Dell puts in an install CD for every Inspiron. They'd only have to set up the drivers once (fixed cost) and image that install 100,000 times, versus $10 to Microsoft for each and every box.
And, presumably there would be other savings; I assume they pay some piddly amount for the bargain basement word processor, burner software, etc.
Ongoing support is another issue though; they'd have to send a bunch of new calltaker scripts to India. "Ok, now find/lib/modules -name "*.ko"...
You can run multiple front ends with multiple back ends. The XBox makes a nice, already in place, front end. (/.-ers all have hacked xboxen, right?)
As far as I know, you can't use a native windows box for a front end, but with knoppmyth, you can just reboot your windows box and run the frontend off the cd. You don't really want to run outlook while watching your mythtv, right?
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There's nothing to stop someone else from using it; they would just have to create a software product that embeds IE, create a bunch of buzz and get thousands of people to download it and install it, and craft a site to exploit it.
Or, they could just find somebody else with a popular app that embeds IE, but with fewer resources that haven't patched around this bug.
Really, though, when you're talking about a product line, I don't see how the setup cost matters. It's not like a tech at Dell puts in an install CD for every Inspiron. They'd only have to set up the drivers once (fixed cost) and image that install 100,000 times, versus $10 to Microsoft for each and every box.
/lib/modules -name "*.ko"...
And, presumably there would be other savings; I assume they pay some piddly amount for the bargain basement word processor, burner software, etc.
Ongoing support is another issue though; they'd have to send a bunch of new calltaker scripts to India. "Ok, now find
"This country" == ??
Your profile indicates you're in Chile. I think other replies are assuming you're in US.
You can run multiple front ends with multiple back ends. The XBox makes a nice, already in place, front end. (/.-ers all have hacked xboxen, right?)
As far as I know, you can't use a native windows box for a front end, but with knoppmyth, you can just reboot your windows box and run the frontend off the cd. You don't really want to run outlook while watching your mythtv, right?