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Good review of Lindows withdrawn!!!! Please read.
Mistshadow:
^You're both right. Linux can get viruses, but considering it's built-in security, as opposed to Windows, that with many of the extremely few viruses there are you'd have to deliberately spread them in the system as root before they could work. At any rate, they're still so scarce that you're more likely to win the lottery than get a Linux viruses (no joke).
Personally, the almost entire lack of viruses was one of the things that attracted me to Linux in the first place. Maybe some newbies would still cling to antivirus software like a kid to his blanket, but many wouldn't - until they saw something like that. Then they might think they'd heard wrong and had better get an antivirus program after all, and that's exactly what those ads are designed to do.
I thought about posting at their forum in the guest area, and maybe I should have. But would I have gotten an honest answer? I wasn't so sure. After all, if they would do such a thing in the first place, would they have answered me honestly?
Lastly, just one more thing for the record, in my first post, I meant free as in unrestricted, not cost. Free software by the open source definition can't be taken back, and a great deal of the programs they're selling are open source.
flap:
And GNU/Linux users are less likely to run non-free software, i.e. untrustworthy programs for which they don't have the source code. Such as Lindows.
quote:Free software by the open source definition can't be taken back
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I think you mean Free Software by the Free Software definition. The Open Source definition doesn't define Free Software.
hm_murdock:
quote:They may not be monopolists, but they're definitly trying to keep a stranglehold on their customers.
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Oh no, not a company that tries to control things! oh no! how dare they try to make some profits!!
quote: If you think things are bad now, just imagine if Lindows.com overtook M$.
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lol!! won't happen!
quote:So don't use proprietary software. Then you avoid this kind of thing.
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better yet, don't be a thinskinned pussy. I'm an Apple guy, and even though I think the company does some of the stupidest things (not just as a customer, but they make stupid business decisions... like not having a low-end option)... but I like a lot of their products. I also realized that windows doesn't suck. for the time that a lot of you dudes put into making Linux work, you can make Windows work just as well. I also want to run Fedora and try it out.
computers rock, open source or proprietary
quote:delayed in shipping because of a terrorist alert
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lol that's hifuckinlarious this terror thing is getting to be stupid. they know they don't have to attack now, because they can make life halt just by saying something.
that's the international intelligence equivalent of popping up behind something and saying "booga booga" and making a bunch of little pussy kids run away.
WHY DON'T WE EVER FUCKING TRY TO KILL THE BADGUYS?!?!
oh, because modern gov'ts are all weak pussies
flap:
quote:Oh no, not a company that tries to control things! oh no! how dare they try to make some profits!!
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Yes, heaven forbid anyone should value their freedom and their right to do what they choose with their own computer.
quote:I also realized that windows doesn't suck. for the time that a lot of you dudes put into making Linux work, you can make Windows work just as well.
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Yes it does. Windows is incapable of doing the things that Unix does straight out of the box, with no work at all.
[ January 31, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]
Fett101:
quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
[QB] I also realized that windows doesn't suck. for the time that a lot of you dudes put into making Linux work, you can make Windows work just as well. I also want to run Fedora and try it out.
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Yeah verliy. It may take a day or two, but all my copies of XP are running smooth as butter, no spyware, viruses, or ugly ass themes to be found.
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