Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:27:03 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nothing's going to change (at the government level) until _that_ changes. Soo, what are you suggesting exactly? Killing is *wrong*, I repeat, *wrong*, I would never ever sanction or condone something like that! H. Tape must be running. :) Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:02, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~prillih3/blog/stories/2002/08/03/microsoftWantsAdminPrivile.html This impacts countries national security. Many governments won't take it easy. A huge mistake. Adolfo Look, all in all, no one seems to be doing anything to stop Microsoft from ditching every anti-trust suit thrown at them and doing as they wish no matter what. Remember the browser BS? Now they're ditching stand alone IE for an IE that's built into the system (as if it wasn't in the first place) - so it would appear that everything that's been done to keep them from being a monster monopoly (all the DOJ battle?) have been completely for naught, and have cost the US public untold millions of tax dollars just so that Microsoft can do as they want anyways and get away with it. Palladium and Longhorn and DRM are moving into the popular stream because most of the public doesn't have a clue as to what it is or what it does - just that Microsoft says it's good! and they go for it hook, line and sinker. It's bad enough hypothesising about the reality of it, but in THINKING about the reality of it, this is even more than scary. It's more than Big Brother and even more than a breach in personal privacy. It's hard to say what the US government is going to say because they're already doing everything they can to bypass US citizens privacy and personal rights and if they're in bed with Microsoft, then it's really all for naught because then it WILL go through and it WILL be pushed upon the rest of the computing world - whether it's right or not. Microsoft has already shown that they have really no care about privacy or security or even offering privacy or security to the end user - just as much as the US government doesn't care about personal privacy or personal security; so hand-in-hand this would end the computing world and/or internet privacy/anonymity as we know it now. -- Mon Jun 16 21:20:01 EST 2003 21:20:01 up 3 days, 4:34, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.02 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Good night, Austin, Texas, wherever you are! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
I am just trying to foresee what Microsoft will become if SCO wins. If they can come out with this sort of EULA even when they feel threated by Linux, just imagine what they would do if there were no challenging alternative. Adolofo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC (old, but relevant)
Hello Stephen, Monday, June 16, 2003, 2:40:15 AM, you wrote: SK microsoftWantsAdminPrivile.html This is at the top of my list for why I tried MD. This box in front of me is *MY* computer, not theirs!! -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC (old, but relevant)
Problem is the lines you're using to tell us that ARE theirs -Original Message- From: rikona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:06 PM To: Stephen Kuhn Subject: Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC (old, but relevant) Hello Stephen, Monday, June 16, 2003, 2:40:15 AM, you wrote: SK microsoftWantsAdminPrivile.html This is at the top of my list for why I tried MD. This box in front of me is *MY* computer, not theirs!! -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
On 16 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: . . . lots o' snip Microsoft has already shown that they have really no care about privacy or security or even offering privacy or security to the end user - just as much as the US government doesn't care about personal privacy or personal security; so hand-in-hand this would end the computing world and/or internet privacy/anonymity as we know it now. Clinton tried to curb MS, but the Bush administration has been in bed with them from the moment they took office. Nothing's going to change (at the government level) until _that_ changes. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:27:03 -0500 (CDT) Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nothing's going to change (at the government level) until _that_ changes. Soo, what are you suggesting exactly? Killing is *wrong*, I repeat, *wrong*, I would never ever sanction or condone something like that! Never! Ever! Seriously, who cares about Bush and his cronies, they only run one country, what are they going to do, nuke Linux? LOL, half their National Security infrastructure is switching to Linux. --+ Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~prillih3/blog/stories/2002/08/03/microsoftWantsAdminPrivile.html Possibly I don't need that tinfoil hat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC (old, but relevant)
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:47, JoeHill wrote: For every roadblock they put up in front of us, we'll find a way around it, or we'll use Stephen's head as a battering ram, whichever...after years of abuse, I would imagine a 12 guage round to the cranium would just give him a headache. 12 gauge would seem more like a mozzie bite mate. -- Tue Jun 17 14:20:00 EST 2003 14:20:00 up 3 days, 21:34, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.05, 0.01 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:#4 Clothes: Men don't discard clothes. The average man still has the gym shirt he wore in high school. He thinks a jacket is just getting broken in about the time it develops holes in the elbows. A man will let new shirts sit on the shelf in their original packaging for a couple of years before putting them to use, hoping they'll become more comfortable with age. Women think clothes are radioactive, with a half-life of one year. They exercise precautions to avoid contamination by last year's fashions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
