Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 01:30:10 10/28/01
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On October 28, 2001 at 01:17:02, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 28, 2001 at 00:11:13, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On October 27, 2001 at 23:28:21, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On October 27, 2001 at 16:27:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On October 27, 2001 at 06:46:25, Ed Schröder wrote: >>>> >>>>>Just realize the power of MS, if they want to stop all PC's from working >>>>>one day they can do it. I know this is extreme but that is not important. >>>>>Important is if it is desirable a company to have so much power. >>>> >>>>No they can't. There is no code in Windows to ping the master server every day >>>>to see if Microsoft has issued the "end the world" command. >>> >>> >>> >>>Mmmh... Tell me, do we have any proof of this? >>> >>>What if I want to know what kind of information my copy of Windows is sending to >>>Microsoft? Can I have a look at the source code, please? >> >>Can you look at the source code of *any* commercial (i.e. not open source) >>program? I.e. can you be sure that your non-MS mail client does not send >>anything to the manufacturer? Lotus Notes? Eudora? The Bat? Etc. > > > >With an open source OS and the associated open source applications I can do >that. > >As far as I know I can do that for Netscape for example. Even the Windows >version. Wrong. Eugene >I can check the whole source code of Linux, if I want to. > >But this is not a big issue for me. I'm not really concerned by my copy of >Windows sending info to Microsoft. If it happens some day that Windows sends >sensitive information from the customers computers to Microsoft, I predict a >very very cloudy future for Bill's company. > >I was talking about this because Tom raised the question, and because it raises >a number of other questions about the trust you have to put into the company who >provides your operating system. > >That's something most people do not realize. > > > > Christophe
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