With that qualifier I am willing to bet you aren't considering GNU+linux a "consumer facing os"? I also far too often see this logicaL fallacy being used. I wa

With that qualifier I am willing to bet you aren't considering GNU+linux a "consumer facing os"? I also far too often see this logicaL fallacy being used. I was recently railing against MS and someone said, "well I'm more worried about facebook, what about them?" Your comments about OSX and Chrome have almost nothing to do with the the current discussion topic which is MS updates systems. I wish people would stop doing this equivicating, it's tiring and logically fallacious. A person can call out any company they want for anything they want on the merits of their argument without it having to turn into a major company comparison. All that said... gnu+linux actually allows the user control, and things like this can be stopped. Bottom line is this, either the user controls the program, or the program controls the user. Google, Apple, and MS have all shown they are more concerned with controlling the user than giving them freedom. GNU+linux or really just GNU, is the future of freedom, and until people start understanding how inherently political software is, and stop basing their software choices purely on pragmatics (but mah lozedoze gaming!), these types of problems will continue to happen and have things written about them, but the solution is already here. Stop using closed source proprietary systems.