On the Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:26:37AM -0700, Stanislav Sinyagin blubbered:
Hoi Stan!
All that is needed to take Skype down is an automatic windows update of some thousand computers.
Remember last summer? http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070819
hey Venty, long time no see :)
if you remember, back in 2003-2004 there were viruses which knocked down hundreds of thousands of windows PCs. So what, we're still using that :)
Well, I'm typing on a Mac at the office, using SSH to connect to a NetBSD box at home. =:-) My last Windows installation is a Windows 2000, which is slowly falling apart.
If the tool serves my needs, I don't really care if it's open source - I'm not going to compile anything on my desktop anyway. And if it collects any marketing stats, so what, everyone is doing that, and we're helping them (Coop Supercard for example). There's nothing bad about companies knowing better what I might buy from them :-)
Well, yes, if it serves the purpose, sure. Though if the company/product has a bad reputation in terms of security and spying on the user, I do think twice about using it. Skype is one of these companies/products actually. As said before, I use Skype at most with the PSPs built-in client which can do phone calls and thats it. I'm not much online there though.
CU, Venty