Comments on: MS anti-spyware beta launch http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3455 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3455/comment-page-1#comment-8265 Reader's Write Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:24:32 +0000 #comment-8265 Actually, malware from MS needs to be bough. |-p So we need to convince stores to warn their customers of the serious legal and sociological consequences of using the MS products which all extensively use the legal trickery of forcing the user to comply with vague and far-reaching demands laid out in EULAs that are only shown AFTER you buy the product. Just because MS makes you agree to their malware doesn't mean it's any better. And let's not pretend that all the registration and monitoring of "uses" is to prevend unauthorized use of their products. It's about invasion of privacy for marketing and monetary concerns. Maybe we could call those legalware or something. Actually, malware from MS needs to be bough. |-p

So we need to convince stores to warn their customers of the serious legal and sociological consequences of using the MS products which all extensively use the legal trickery of forcing the user to comply with vague and far-reaching demands laid out in EULAs that are only shown AFTER you buy the product.

Just because MS makes you agree to their malware doesn’t mean it’s any better.

And let’s not pretend that all the registration and monitoring of “uses” is to prevend unauthorized use of their products. It’s about invasion of privacy for marketing and monetary concerns.

Maybe we could call those legalware or something.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3455/comment-page-1#comment-8262 Reader's Write Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:23:05 +0000 #comment-8262 So then who will guard us against MS spyware? So then who will guard us against MS spyware?

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