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In article <8d2Ve.323$6Z1.100952@news20.bellglobal.com>,
wolfekir@sympatico.ca says...
> Paul Adare wrote:
> > In article <YGJUe.30333$vN.975121@news20.bellglobal.com>, in the
> > microsoft.public.win2000.security news group, Wolf Kirchmeir
> > <wolfekir@sympatico.ca> says...
> >
> >
> >>Or just don't use this kind of software. Why use software that
> >>misbehaves? Just because it's made by MS doesn't mean it's good for you.
> >>MS software is made to benefit MS, not you. Be suspicious of _anything_
> >>made by MS, and find a substitute ASAP.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Your anti-Microsoft bias is showing. You might want to adjust your
> > glasses and re-read the original post. Last time I checked MusicMatch
> > Jukebox was not a Microsoft product.
> >
>
> Sorry, the OP wording seemed to me to imply it was an MS product. My
> error, it seems.
>
> Regardless, I do _not_ like programs that "phone home" without good
> reason, I don't care who makes them. MS seems to build this into much of
> their product as a matter of course. I don't mind Automatic Updater
> "phoning home" to check for security patches etc, but that's a necessary
> part of that particular service. In most other software I have that
> checks for updates, I've turned off that feature, and initiate the check
> myself. I'm rather paranoid...
>
> Do I have a bias against MS? No more than against any company that tries
> to manipulate the market. I'm a radical free marketeer in economic
> philosophy, and MS does not play by free market rules. I think the
> government's role is ensure the market is as free as possible, which
> paradoxically means enforcing the rules of the free market, as in
> anti-trust legislation, etc. It just hasn't gone far enough, and under
> recent administrations, the US's free market regulation, which was IMO
> the best in the world, has been pretty thoroughly gutted, and/or the
> Justice Department has been muzzled. Pity. The EU appears to have
> overtaken the USA in enforcement of free market principles.
>
> But that's just one side of the free market equation. A free market also
> requires knowledgable customers, and that takes work. IMO, very few
> people have grasped that the customer also has a responsibility to keep
> the market free, by learning as much as possible about the products
> (s)he is contemplating buying. I've seen ads that extol and encourage
> the customer's _ignorance_ - you know, the ones that tell the
> prospective buyer that they don't need to know all that geeky stuff,
> just know of what's cool, and they won't go wrong. Good grief!
>
> But enough of ranting.
Yeah enough ranting. it is not a Microsoft product. deal with it or
take it to the vendor. Your ranting against MS for another vendor's
product appears as really childish...
Brian