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https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
by whoisninja 6y ago
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
- tw04 6y agoI'm sorry, they lose all credibility when they call forced updates "malware". We spent the entirety of the late-90s/early 2000s complaining that MS didn't force updates on users, so these massive worms were infecting half the internet with exploits that were patched YEARS earlier. It took moving a mountain to get MS to enforce patching of consumer systems, to sit here now and claim that's malware is both irresponsible and ridiculously short-sighted. Without mandatory patching, I can say without exaggeration that the entire internet would be less safe. Anyone spewing that nonsense is either too young to remember how horrible things were, or too stubborn to acknowledge it was the right thing to do whether they personally agree with it or not.
- whoisninja 6y agoit doesn't matter, at the end of the day.. do you think open-source OS that is widely used and audited is more secure than closed source OS like Windows? most infosec community knows the answer. if you know yours well, good. I am not convincing anyone, anything. I just meant, there is value is looking at things objectively than reading some news articles or opinions said by some bigwigs.