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

[Josh Johnson]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Mark Musone wrote:

> 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

This is a not-so-nice thing that Sony's doing. But the problem with 
windows, is that you can even get a rootkit on your system. As long as I'm
  not browsing the web and checking email as 
root, I'm not worried about it.


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> -----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
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> 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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