[CS-FSLUG] Analysis: MS and Spyware Giant Claria

[Frank Bax]

At 10:03 PM 7/1/05, Ed Hurst wrote:
>Regardless of the evil MS may do, it appears to me there's a vast
>underlying apathy among users that keeps them ignorant of their options.
>Not just "don't know" but unwilling to listen to even the simplest of
>warnings. We probably all know someone who had had enough, and we helped
>them switch to Open Source. I wonder: When will a much larger segment of
>the computer using population "have enough"?


It'll never happen.  Compare it to telemarketing - you know, that annoying 
"pop-up" on our telephone system.  If it weren't profitable, companies 
wouldn't do it.