[nflug] Another reason to not use M$ products...

[Dave Yearke]

Mark,

Well written. I agree with everything you said. This is a great list for
Linux technical issues, and I wish the Microsoft-bashing could be left
for elsewhere. It's just not constructive, in my opinion.

Dave

>I hate to be a devils advocate, but how is this a "Microsoft is horrible"
>issue??
>
>this is a _software application_ issue. in fact, a SONY issue.
>Where does Microsoft come into this mix to a point of "Thank God for linux"
>??
>
>Because a software company decided to write some not-so-nice software for a
>particular operating system, suddenly it's the operating systems fault??
>
>What if Sony wrote this same software for Linux, should we all be bashing
>Linux and praising Microsoft because of a vendors choice of supported
>operating system??
>
>Is it because this is yet another security issue with Windows? if that's the
>case then look at it this way, the very name of this event: Sony _ROOTKIT_
>has it's very definition based on _unix_, not windows. rootkits are
>generally identified as a Unix/Linux thing. So, someone saying "Oh, bad
>Microsoft for letting people write a Windows Rootkit" is just ludicrous.
>Linux/Unix ABOUNDS in rootkits.
>
>If this is a "see, Windows doesn't let you play cd's..." argument, then that
>is also ludicrous, because this same CD won't work under Linux either!!!
>
>I'm sorry for going off, but sometimes people need to get a fundamental
>understanding of issues, and not react to the slightest trigger of anything
>having the word Microsoft in it. This is the line that Zealots cross which
>instantly make their arguments not credible.
>
>-Mark
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>Robert Meyer
>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:50 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: [nflug] Another reason to not use M$ products...
>
>http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.ht
>ml
>
>Peter, you might want to start looking at your client's machines for this
>piece
>of *Corporate Sponsored Rootkit*.  It seems that Sony's copy protected CDs
>are
>installing difficult to remove, stealth rootkits to keep you from copying
>their
>CDs.
>
>Happily living in Linux land...
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>
>
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-- 
                      Dave Yearke, yearke at eng.buffalo.edu
                      Director, Science & Engineering Node
                      Services, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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