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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:44:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Open_Source
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021940280.2742@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20090602163749.GA23560@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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>> I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
>> other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
>
> YES!    This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
> and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
> software as much as possible.

But i'm not agains micro-soft. If someone want to pay and be
controlled - his problem.

Today micro-soft doesn't even hide with this!! So it's clear - you pay big 
brother and he does well the job he's paid for!

> (ps. The other two are the quality of MS systems and MS business practices)

I didn't mean microsoft but any commercial software.

Actually i just switched from opera to firefox for similar reasons.

I DO NOT say that opera doing such things, but i'm not sure it does not.

Every minute or so when i use opera is starts lots of disk I/O and slows 
down. It do so no matter if i'm loading some pages or do just nothing.

It wasn't happening with older versions, but with that
opera-9.64.20090302




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