XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: usenet@gallopinginsanity.com   
      
   On 11/27/12 8:24 PM, in article k9405l$m6d$1@dont-email.me, "Norman Peelman"   
    wrote:   
      
   > On 11/27/2012 04:54 PM, Snit wrote:   
   >> On 11/27/12 2:24 PM, in article k93b1r$9qh$1@dont-email.me, "Justin"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> You don't see this on OSX!  As usual, most software for Windows is   
   >>> pretty much useless.  The only way companies can get users to install   
   >>> it, is by tricking them.   
   >>> A good example is cutepdf and the piece of shit ask.com toolbar.   
   >>>   
   >>> Why is ask.com even still around?   
   >>> Is Jeeves in a union?   
   >>> Do they get a nickel for every popup they generate on user's machines?   
   >>> Of course somebody on here seems to believe I was faking the   
   >>> screenshots.  I must have faked this video too.   
   >>> Here's a challenge, find a similar attempt to trick a user into   
   >>> installing something on OSX.   
   >>> Of course, one doesn't need cutepdf or anything like that on the mac   
   >>> since it has PDF generation built in.   
   >>>   
   >>> http://tinypic.com/r/19vxow/6   
   >>   
   >> For a better video of the same process:   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> Yes: Windows sucks in this area. No doubt.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >    That looks like a great idea... You can actually search the Internet   
   > directly from your browser!   
      
   Er?   
      
      
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   "90% of computers use Microsoft's Windows ... Macs account for 9% of the   
   market while the open source system Linux accounts for 0.8%."   
   -- Linus Torvalds   
      
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