Author: Richard L. Proctor Date: Subject: YMMV, but MY Linux desktop stinks
On Saturday 10 January 2004 7:32 pm, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> They are a *CONVICTED* monopolist for one. This tells me they have few
> scruples in business. To address your second concern and help prove
> that I am not out to get Microsoft. I don't use YAST and if you read
> this list you will note I tell countless other people to avoid SuSE at
> all cost because they play the proprietary game with a open source
> face. As to the service I use to update my computer "apt". I have the
> source code for it. So in reviewing that code I can tell what is
> doing. Furthermore, the other services you listed didn't give
> themselves those rights in a EULA. Microsoft did. I could probably
> take legal action against them if they started replacing software on my
> machine w/o notifying me.
Unfortunately not all of us can read and understand the source code. So it
appears only valid to a programmer?
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Richard L. Proctor
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