[plug] Linux Desktop Market

[John Knight]

Given the choice of freedom, or strict control, these are consequences I'd 
rather accept. But as OSS, we have security through transparency, so we 
wouldn't have problems to the same extent.

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"


>On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:00:17PM +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
>
> > > Using central repositories solely is asking users to switch from
> > > choice and freedom outside to something insular instead. To a devoted
> > > few geeks (flame imminent, please don't kill me), this seems the ideal
> > > solution, to but to all of my mates who just wanna grab an app from
> > > somewhere, the idea seems silly to them.
> >
> > Probably because they fail to realise that downloading and installing
> > stuff from here, there, and everywhere is exactly the source of the
> > malware that's grinding their systems to a halt.
>
>Alas, that's true only some of the time. It's also often hitched a ride
>on legitimate-looking (to your average user) software, assaulted your
>machine directly over the 'net, or taken the MSIE express route onto your
>system.
>
>That said, a lot of the _real_ nasties do seem to come in on dodgy
>software like "free" screen savers (that somehow have money for REALLY
>ANNOYING ads on the 'net ... funny that) and similar cursor packs.
>
>--
>Craig Ringer
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