[PLUG] Congratulations to Carla

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:03, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Tim Slighter wrote:
> > Is it possible that a lot of these issues stem from the fact that a
> > majority of organizations do not trust in the ability to ensure and
> > verify the integrity of opensource downloads including the Linux
> > operating system and vendors are quick to jump on the bandwagon to
> > provide them with
> > applications/drivers that will be deployed on "verified" operating
> > systems? "verified" as in the administrator has the reasonable
> > expectation that the Windows 2003 Server installation CD has not been
> > tampered with.
>
> In the case of PeoplePC it is a hold your customer prisoner issue.  The
> PeoplePC setup puts some MS Windows stuff in that is nearly immpossible
> to pry out.  Back in my ISP support days I had to turn new customers
> away ( or tell them to call PeoplePC to uninstall ) if they'd even tried
> PeoplePC.  We ( and there were some very savy Windows people there )
> couldn't find, using normal/typical means, how to uninstall.

AOL is just as bad. They install their own networking stack over Windows', 
with the result that when you try to connect to a different network you can't 
do it. Sometimes you can surgically remove the AOL junk and reinstall Windows 
networking, but just as often it takes a complete reinstallation.

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