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So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users. Got it.

Suggest reading up on the history of personal computing, and then ask yourself if this is how it was supposed to go. At this point, even Mac and Linux users are starting to feel the loving embrace of their OS vendors' paternalism.




As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

> So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.


As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

I don't think you want to go there, broheim. Wait'll you hear my opinion of how "safe" your computer is, and whether it should be allowed on a network.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

A personal computer, along with its operating system, should do what its owner tells it to do.

That was kind of the original idea, anyway.




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