Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:22:30 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open_Source Message-ID: <20090602182230.GA24045@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021940280.2742@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021757290.2065@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090602163749.GA23560@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021940280.2742@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:44:46PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>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! I am, -- on my machines. What someone else does is there problem unless it spreads to my stuff. > >(ps. The other two are the quality of MS systems and MS business practices) > > I didn't mean microsoft but any commercial software. I know, but I picked that as my example. ////jerry > > 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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