[IWE] For masochists - SecurityFocus on Vista

[Ashton Brown]

Creator of my fav DOS/Doze tools of yore.. back when I bothered - has 
his own take on this-all, including an epitaph for Mark Russinovich's 
{dead honor?}

I speak here of the author of all those powerful teeny tools - about 
which I have spake periodically:

http://radsoft.net/

Add to list his 29 Reasons Not-to. (One each day, through January)


Peter Whysall wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ashton Brown [mailto:ashton@vom.com] 
>>Sent: 16 February 2007 11:30
>>To: iwe@warhead.org.uk
>>Subject: [IWE] For masochists - SecurityFocus on Vista
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>>I admit it..  the kind of banal curiosity as causes gawkers at auto 
>>crashes, caused me to follow this link -
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>>http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423/1
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>>A lengthy enumeration of the <Fuck *You!* (L)user> massively-built-in 
>>Gotchas of the latest Beastware.
>>How utterly absurd must these EULA/DRMs get before a significant 
>>minority of the ovine /ever. speak. up?/
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>>(And for those who never do - is any sympathy due the poor saps.. who 
>>keep coming back for more..?
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>The simple fact that Microsoft have reserved the right to unilaterally -
>and, effectively, for any reason - disable or delete any or all of the
>software for which you have paid for a licence means that I will not be
>running Vista at home, ever.
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>There is a viable alternative : Mac OS X. If you're happy with a few rough
>edges and a bit more of an adventure, there's Linux. Both are, for the
>typical web, mail and a bit of wordprocessing/spreadsheeting scenario of
>home use, feature complete /at worst/.
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>And both have better - MUCH better - mail clients than Windows Vista (in the
>shape of Evolution and Mail.app). I've got RC2 of Vista chained up in a
>Parallels VM dungeon, and Windows Mail is still crap.
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>If you choose to run Vista, please do not complain when it fucks you up the
>arse. And it will.
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>Regards
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>Peter.
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