I never liked Mandrake anyway but now they give me a strong argument against their company!
The reason why we are using Linux is the Free feeling. Freedom of choice, freedom from ads, freedom from spyware... And yes! FREE BEER!
Now Mandrake is trying to reverse all that? So what's next? Proprietary software?
If Mandrake or any Company wants to put some adds in their installer, that's fine by me! But No Way someone can force me to see an add everytime I browse or everytime there is a screensaver!
Imagine a business environment right after lunch break! Screensavers everywhere and adds all over the place! NO WAY!
and btw, NO I'm not willing to pay more so that they can remove the ads! Linux WAS, IS, and MUST REMAIN Free! Free as of spirit and Free as of beer!
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The truth is that we are concidered something close to what Wizzards and Witches where during the Dark Ages. They where close to the King, he had to trust them, he actually needed them but then again they where hunting them down and burning them.
My wife once said that in her eyes I'm something like a Sorcerer, I do things that no-one can understand, and in most people's eyes look unbelievable; "But you are there and I'm here how on earth did you manage to change my IE homepage?"
Magnetism was considered "magic" 100 years ago, then a guy came along studied it and explained it to the rest of the human kind. The weird thing is that we are not using black boxes, or unsolved riddles, the answers are there for anyone who is willing to ask, but how many people can understand them? Computer Security is something like advanced mathematics; you can't just start solving a problem if you don't have the proper foundations to do so! We do! Our only difference is that Mathematics where here since the Start of Time, the Universe and Everything, but we are a new breed and as history has proven numerous times, Humans as a kind just don't like anything new and they always fail to accept it without first condemning it as Evil and Bad.
High Leader of the Dark Legion of ZeroOne, Lord Kussic
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who's michael? what's the problem with this guy?
I never liked Mandrake anyway but now they give me a strong argument against their company!
The reason why we are using Linux is the Free feeling. Freedom of choice, freedom from ads, freedom from spyware... And yes! FREE BEER!
Now Mandrake is trying to reverse all that? So what's next? Proprietary software?
If Mandrake or any Company wants to put some adds in their installer, that's fine by me! But No Way someone can force me to see an add everytime I browse or everytime there is a screensaver!
Imagine a business environment right after lunch break! Screensavers everywhere and adds all over the place! NO WAY!
and btw, NO I'm not willing to pay more so that they can remove the ads! Linux WAS, IS, and MUST REMAIN Free! Free as of spirit and Free as of beer!
The truth is that we are concidered something close to what Wizzards and Witches where during the Dark Ages. They where close to the King, he had to trust them, he actually needed them but then again they where hunting them down and burning them.
My wife once said that in her eyes I'm something like a Sorcerer, I do things that no-one can understand, and in most people's eyes look unbelievable; "But you are there and I'm here how on earth did you manage to change my IE homepage?"
Magnetism was considered "magic" 100 years ago, then a guy came along studied it and explained it to the rest of the human kind. The weird thing is that we are not using black boxes, or unsolved riddles, the answers are there for anyone who is willing to ask, but how many people can understand them? Computer Security is something like advanced mathematics; you can't just start solving a problem if you don't have the proper foundations to do so! We do! Our only difference is that Mathematics where here since the Start of Time, the Universe and Everything, but we are a new breed and as history has proven numerous times, Humans as a kind just don't like anything new and they always fail to accept it without first condemning it as Evil and Bad.
High Leader of the Dark Legion of ZeroOne,
Lord Kussic