On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> Open Source is free as in Frustration.
>
> Don't let anyone lie to you and say that it is not.
Well, why not fight anecdote with anecdote!
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At 11 a.m. today, 4/21, McAfee, released an update to its customers that
improperly identified a critical component of Windows as having a virus.
The majority of McAfee’s customers worldwide, automatically propagates these
virus definitions to their client PCs.
Roughly 800,000 PCs randomly distributed across the world automatically
received the virus scan update and are now experiencing repetitive reboots.
These computers are not functioning at this time and will be offline until the
problem is fixed.
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http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/538652366/info-roundup-mcafee-kills-computers-worldwide
( -or- http://j.mp/b4zZeD )
So I guess I don't understand: you PAID for this software, you PAID for
your OS, but you are still subject to having your computer totally hosed for no
good reason? So if open source costs time instead of money, proprietary
software costs time AND money!
-- Ed Leafe
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