--- Roshan wrote:
"...Microsoft Windows is a spyware ...(Windows
XP)"
May i know who was it that said this?
RMS. He's said this because, either he has discovered it or someone has told him.
A friend has Windows installed on her desktop (by the vendor) and called me for help because she keeps getting messages about it not being a licensed copy. Clearly this happens because MS is monitoring online unlicensed copies (she didn't know the difference and has asked the vendor to implement a license).
If that doesn't count as spyware, then what does? However, with all due respect to RMS, I prefer to think of most implementations of the OS as malware (and reserve my opinions only on the ones I haven't tried myself).
--- Vickram
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Sometime on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:11:03PM +0100, Vic Cris said: <snip>
If that doesn't count as spyware, then what does? However, with all due respect to RMS, I prefer to think of most implementations of the OS as malware (and reserve my opinions only on the ones I haven't tried myself).
who knows? Windows could actually be a spyware. I have heard about Microsoft conspiracy theories and the existance of NSA-KEY whose private key is owned by NSA.
Anurag
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