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All this only serve to make ms strong again on consumer market. It's the good old bait and switch. And Ubuntu suckers are going right into "ohh i have money. I
by gcb 14y ago
All this only serve to make ms strong again on consumer market. It's the good old bait and switch. And Ubuntu suckers are going right into
"ohh i have money. I can buy into the game and finally have more installs than Debian"
Let's see how that plays out later, since we all know this boot shenanigans do nothing it advertised (virus, security) and only serve to harden the installation of non windows os
- geofft 14y agoIf by "money" you mean $99 to buy a certificate from Verisign. Debian also has $99 to throw at Verisign, it's just making up its mind as to whether it wants to. I'm not saying I'm happy about any of this, but complaining about the money makes you sound exactly as credible as someone calling Ubuntu suckers because they pay for SSL certificates. (Especially because SSL has all the same issues of root keys owned by rapacious trusted third parties, and a security benefit that isn't obviously that big, these days...)
- gcb 14y agothe sucker part is about the big picture. SSL for all it's problems still is the closest to provide http securely. This safeboot thing helps with nothing. at all. now back to the sucker part. thanks to ubuntu, everyone now instead of complaining or not buying hardware because free drivers aren't provided, will just and gladly use binary ones. and then complain that linux is unstable. i know it's a fine line to walk since otherwise they will just complain linux is not compatible with anything... but i think the later is fixable.