Ubuntu does too, although I'm guessing you use a different distro. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, at 07:04 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Oh, I absolutely agree! My primary OS is Linux so I can have a lot > more control of my choices. > > However, I have to support clients on OS X and Windows, so I need to > know how those platforms work and how I might run them safely within > my office network. My clients will have issues running standard HTML5, > CSS3 and Javascript if they use an off-brand browser like Safari or > Edge, so I have to reproduce their environments. > > MS and Apple (and Google, and Facebook and Twitter and...) collect far > more information about what I type, what I view, what I search and the > contents of my documents than I am comfortable with. Their excuse of > Big Data for better ads and "no personally identifiable information" > has been proven false more than once. > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Jerry Wolper <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Well, pirates get what they deserve. I'm far more concerned about the > >> "false positives" where MS decides VFP software named YourApp.EXE is > >> pirated and disable it. > > > > Call me a hopeless romantic, but I prefer my operating system to, you know, > > operate the system, not to worry about what software or data I might have > > on the machine. I'd also strongly prefer that it not report back on me to > > anybody. > > > > -Jerry > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > multipart/alternative > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > text/html > > --- > > [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/1440616686.3950765.366886281.429fc...@webmail.messagingengine.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.
