This may be an instance of a much larger problem, one that has been discussed
with regard to automobiles and light machinery among other environments of
computer-type programming. It is, I suggest, a problem as much jurisprudential
as electronic.
When I buy a computer and an operating system, who owns it? Does it belong to
he who bought and paid for it, or does it continue to belong to the company
that produced it? Windows is not alone in this. Mac OS has its own version of
forcing unrequested and often unauthorized updates, as is Samsung / Android or
whoever makes those systems. Updates are installed at the producer's election,
and as often as not in my experience with all three systems they disable or
scramble the functions of some application I had been relying on.
I don't recall granting permission to any of the operating system producers to
enter my computer unacknowledged and change it, however benevolent their
purpose may be. It is not a stretch in my mind to say that this is not much
different from an automobile maker keeping the keys to the car I bought,
finding it in my garage and entering it some night, and changing the color of
the upholstery without my knowledge or consent. Absurd, right? From a
macro-legal point of view, it's not a bad analogy.
And then the complaints are met with silence. If a fix is offered, the user
has to go hunting for it. No-one has ever told me that they patched something
they fouled up. Elecraft itself it very different. Updates are announced;
they are optional; the changes they make are described; and when a bug appears,
the discussion even by the company owners is prompt and responsive. My ire is
directed rather at the Big Three of the nether world.
Users of the world unite!!
Ted (normally not at all revolutionary but really quite annoyed), KN1CBR
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 01:09:30 -0700
From: Jim Brown <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S USB Drivers
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On 5/31/2018 12:33 AM, Ian White wrote:
> I didn't realise that Win10 Home lacked those update controls, so my
> report applies to Pro users only.
Win10 64K Pro is running on the machine I'm using for my engineering
work, tech writing, and email, and I've not been able to tame its
updating. Can you please help me find these settings? I'm losing stuff
when Win10 asks if I want to update, doesn't get a reply, so does it.
AAARGH!
73, Jim K9YC
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