| Thomas Delrue on 19 May 2016 18:05:03 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Looking for help with Chrome on lubuntu 14.04 trusty i386 |
First subject of the day: The lack of forced updates and lack of mandatory 'telemetry' collection when running "`uname -v | cut --fields 1 --delim ' ' | cut --fields 2 --delim '-'`" ok, ok... I'll get my coat and get out... On 05/19/2016 08:35 PM, Michael Leone wrote: > It's been much more than just Windows 10, it is not just a recent > thing. > > Anyway, let's let the list get back to focusing on Linux, and not > faults and features of other OSes. > > On Thursday, May 19, 2016, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote: > >> I never understood why it's only Linux lists that like insulting >> other >>> OSes. I'm on a couple Windows lists for work, and I never see any >>> similar remarks about other OSes, Linux or otherwise. >>> >> >> What do YOU call software that installs itself even when you >> explicitly do NOT want it to? That's malware to me... >> >> What do YOU call software that sends all kinds of details back to >> its home servers, even when you've told it not to? That's spyware >> to me... >> >> How do you NOT define Win10 as both malware and spyware? >> >> Note that latter argument could be made against Ubuntu and various >> lenses or scopes or whatever they are, until they finally turned >> that crap off by default. But as I understand it if you care and >> turned that off it stayed off and was actually off. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug