XPost: talk.politics.misc   
   From: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
    (ZalekBloom@hotmail.com) writes:   
   > I think I found a case.   
   > On my disk I had Linux and WinXP, dual boot was done by GRUB and had   
   > no problems. One day WinXP crushed and needed to reinstalled it.   
   > Reinstallation of WinXP destroyd my GRUB - so I could not use Linux   
   > until I reinstall the GRUB.   
      
   And you point is?   
      
   Where does M$ warrant or document that XP can be used as dual boot?   
      
   I thought the whole pointof linux is that you can run it on old wintel   
   boxes once William Gates III ups the hardware requirements for new   
   Window$ versions and drops support for old versions.   
      
   I'm more interestred in opening a complaint with the Canadian Federal   
   Privacy Commission if Windows doesn't stop nagging me to install their   
   Windows Live and Silverlight contamninants. If I don't install them I   
   don't have to worry about their security bugs, do I?   
      
   There is nothing in either that I have any interest in, yet every patch   
   Tuesday they show up again in the list of downloads, despite me selecting   
   the checkbox to never hear about them again.   
      
   Which part of no doesn't Steve Ballmer understand, the n or the o?   
      
   The Privacy Commisison had ruled that banks and utility companies are not   
   allowed to stuff advertsising in with invoices/statements if customers   
   object.   
      
   Why should M$ be any different?   
      
   Never having seen it Windows Live sounds like some sort of peer to peer   
   junk. It has been a few years, but I remember an IEEE journal article   
   mentioning adding peer to peer products as being the single most common   
   mistake in home computer security.   
      
   Why should I install M$ software I would never use, and which is alomst   
   certain to have a never ending series of security flaws?   
      
   Now if only I could get m$ to stop nagging me about those monthly updates   
   for their alleged malicious software remover and for LookOut!'s junk mail   
   filter (I use Thunderbird).   
      
   I do not trust M$ to decide what software should be removed from my PC.   
      
   I trust my ISP to filter junk mail. I do not trust M$.   
      
   By the way, did you see the text about the M$ lawyer in the i4i case being   
   sactioned because he mistated USA law repeatedly despite being cautioned   
   repeatedly by the judge?   
      
   Seems that when M$ is being sued for patent infringement they want to   
   make a case that it should not be legal to hold a patent but not use it.   
      
   Ironic, in view of M$ having a collection of patents which are not actually   
   used, just held to prevent the introduction of innovative software which   
   might work better than M$ products already on the market.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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