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   From: thomas.e.elam@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally   
   > unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style   
   > supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need   
   > for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have one of   
   > each product?” you say. And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?   
      
   I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and   
   had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that   
   nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are   
   not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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