Well, sometimes it takes an extremist to point out a fundamental truth. Recently I had to do a project on a brand-new Win 8.1 machine, never before touched, and wanted to see what happened when I just stuck with the default settings, as I know many of my users would. I was astounded by all the EULAs I had to agree with, and the software defaults were all to use MS cloud and MS remote services just to operate the local machine: my user account is stored on some MS login, my documents and pictures are stored on a OneDrive 'cloud' and MS updates the machine whenever it feels like it. So, somewhere on a cloud somewhere is a record of every time I logged in or out, or ran specific software, or took a picture (along, no doubt with location information), all kept safe from prying eyes by... who?
Stallman is a difficult man, on good days, but he is/was a brilliant programmer, without whom the GNU toolchain would not have been around to build Linux. His insights into why we want the source code to the software that runs our computers are very valid, and worth consideration. I have been a proud FSF member for years. (http://www.fsf.org) On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Privacy is of course an ever-growing concern but Stallman is as usual > just way too far over on the paranoid nutjob end of the scale. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4snt0erxwhwcybsft+e3ot1xir_s8wuyt5sqij6eak...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
