On 28/03/2012 21:08, Gerard Arthus wrote:
David,You are right about buying the computer with windows pre-installed, but I have a separate license and only have windows 7 as a virtual machine running on a Linux box. Actually the hacked version runs much better and is more secure than the OEM version.
I really don't see how you can say that that security a version of software obtained from an unverifiable source is better than version from the from certified developer. How secure something is, is a notion at a given point in time. Invariably, there will be bugs, bugs will leads to security flaws, and flaws will lead to vulnerabilities. We will look back in 5 years time in disbelief that all our systems were wide open to exploitation.
Most of the malware comes in through accessing certain registry key, turn of those keys and you can virtually run Windows XP or 7 without malware protection.Nonsense, the vectors of exploitation are varied and many. Malware evolves as quickly as developers plug those vectors.
I have seen many instances of windows ISO downloads that are corrupted from their own site.Funny, I have a technet subscription, and I've not had a single corrupted download, ever...
I do not lose sleep over copyright issues where windows is concerned since they are responsible for more wasted man-hours due to their fixation on making a profit at any price. If you think you only own the plastic, then join the sheeple and pay the corporate scumbags all the money that you want. All of my intellectual work is in the Public Domain and I do not force people to pay for it. You only think that you own the plastic because that is what you are told, but as you do have the right to lend that plastic out, you also should have the right to lend out a digital copy.This is probably a political argument and I should not really get involved. In most of the countries on this planet, the licensing of software is protected by law. Those who breach that law risk extradition to the country upholding the licenser and jail. So you might not be losing sleep now, but you will be when someone in prison decides to make you his bitch.
Actually - I feel that Cloud Computing is a prime example of a vision of control - the cloud provider wants to sell you his system, which in the past was something you actually owned in a physical sense. I don't think that Virtual Computing has any relevance to any free-software movement or anti-copyright activism.Cloud computing and virtual machines will eventually put an end to such myopic visions of control, regardless of what our corporate master believe or say.
At the end of the day, someone writes some software, they are entitled to have it protected by copyright and sell it, yes - for a profit, it might not be good code, it might be excellent code, but they are still entitled to sell it.
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