On the Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:26:37AM -0700, Stanislav Sinyagin blubbered:
Hoi Stan! > > All that is needed to take Skype down is an automatic windows > > update of some thousand computers. > > > > Remember last summer? > > http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070819 > > hey Venty, long time no see :) > > if you remember, back in 2003-2004 there were viruses which knocked down > hundreds > of thousands of windows PCs. So what, we're still using that :) Well, I'm typing on a Mac at the office, using SSH to connect to a NetBSD box at home. =:-) My last Windows installation is a Windows 2000, which is slowly falling apart. > If the tool serves my needs, I don't really care if it's open source - I'm > not > going to compile anything on my desktop anyway. And if it collects any > marketing > stats, so what, everyone is doing that, and we're helping them (Coop Supercard > for example). There's nothing bad about companies knowing better what I might > buy from them :-) Well, yes, if it serves the purpose, sure. Though if the company/product has a bad reputation in terms of security and spying on the user, I do think twice about using it. Skype is one of these companies/products actually. As said before, I use Skype at most with the PSPs built-in client which can do phone calls and thats it. I'm not much online there though. CU, Venty -- What we're planning here is World Domination! _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
