Ask yourself, what's their market for YALD? Geeks? None of us would
tolerate such an invasion of privacy.
Jim Thompson wrote:
Yet all of us use Google now.
This is what I use: http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html
When I use Google directly, I block their cookie. I use Jump Link on
their links (if using Javascript). I do not frequent Orkut. I do not use
Gmail, and will not answer e-mail from Gmail. Googlesyndication and
Googleanalytics are likewise blocked.
In short, I keep Google at arm's length.
N00bs? They try Linux if a Geek helps them.
Or Google promises to end the days of malware on their PeeCee.
Again, how is this different from anyone else's promise? When I was
cleaning PCs, infections were a problem at the time of infection only,
and no-one accepted Linux as a way to end the problem.
The efforts of Xandros and Linspire are just a drop in the bucket.
Ah, but erosion is happening in the markets dominated by Microsoft.
Erosion is a powerful force.
I see evidence for it in the server market. I see very little on the
desktop. I did manage to get my father to switch, though. I told him
that the only way he would continue to get free tech support from me is
if he converted. What does he do now? He runs all his old software on
Win4Lin, but with a couple of key exceptions, browsing and e-mail.
And 10 years ago, very few (if any) did so. [put Linux on servers]
But it is far easier to justify the switch to Linux servers. First, the
majority of the switch is from Unix to Linux. There is surprisingly
little movement from Windows to Linux.
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