A few responses to the various comments:
- It's no co-incidence that this message came at the same time that Macs
are banging on about the same issue :-)
- I'm not convinced that leaflets are the right place for this.
- I agree with Matthew that this isn't the right offensive message.
I'd
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:51 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
I think we ought to be making a far bigger play of the whole Crapware
thing, which has done a great job of introducing hidden costs to running
Windows:
By a strange conincidence, as I was reading Chris' message on my ISP's
webmail page,
Mark Harrison wrote:
Yup - boys and girls - it's unpalatable but it needs addressing.
Manufacturers like Dell now receive as much money in subsidies and fees
from companies like AOL and McAfee for installing crapware on your new
Vista machine as they have to pay to Microsoft for the Vista
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:11 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
I think we ought to be making a far bigger play of the whole Crapware
thing, which has done a great job of introducing hidden costs to running
Windows
I expect people will start making crapware for ubuntu soon, with ads on
the desktop.
