If I don't trust the source, I don't install the program. You're thinking of Linux in terms of Windows, which is a mistake.Originally Posted by WalterDirt
Any person can install it on any computer without any problems
Anyone can use it once it's already been installed and configured
Every commercial application works on it
Nothing--it's a nonsensical term
It automatically detects most hardware without the need to hunt down drivers
It comes preinstalled on computers so novice users don't have to install it
It's suitable to the needs of most beginner users but not necessarily to most intermediate ones
Windows and nothing else... not even Mac OS X
Works on my desktop
Other (please explain)
Dipped in Ubuntu
If I don't trust the source, I don't install the program. You're thinking of Linux in terms of Windows, which is a mistake.
My sole duty is to my own happiness and well-being. I recognize no other.
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Just curious, which one are they shipping?
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What prevents this scenario.
# You download and install a questionable package foobar
# You regularly use SSH, so the SSH binary is allowed to connect out
# foobar opens a connection to the outside using SSH (shell command).
On windows, do you let your appl. firewall trust IE? What about applications that use IE to access the net?
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Sorry, no idea what it's called. I think it's something mandriva themselves developed.
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Personaly I dont, IE is a POS that should die, but afaik applications that use IE call it through a DLL linked in so the application level firewall would still prompt for access despite IE itself having access. I think thats the case anyway.
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Where did you find this information?
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Reading some reviews, I guess.
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Can I ask you one thing? If you find the train service in your country inefficient, do you have the right to say "I don't like the service"?
And if somebody replies to that with "start your own train company", what would you think?
Not everybody has the time/knowledge/will to program, but still everybody has the right to complain, especially when it is done in a polite, useful way.
That sounds like such an obvious and basic rule to me that I'm always surprised by replies like that.
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You are right. And if people have constructive critism of projects and file bugreports, that is off great value for the future of the project!
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your analogy is flawed. I prefer to think of free software like this:
A man, who loves to eat apples, plants an apple tree in the public square, and encourages his neighbours to take apples from it to eat.
His neighbours come, and pluck apples from the tree, and eat. Some like them.
One neighbour, though, went to the man to complain. The apples, said the neighbour, are too sour.
"Don't you like apples?" responded the tree planter.
"Yes. But not these apples," said the neighbour.
"Well," said the tree planter, "There are the seeds--go away and grow your own apple trees."
"But it would take so much time," complained the neighbour. "And I don't know the first thing about apple trees!"
"Then don't eat my apples," said the tree-planter.
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