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mattinker:
Jari,
thanks, I've done some additional searching and reading since I replied to this thread. This started in October of 2012 and has subsequently been made "switch off able" which means that it's still there until you stop it. I haven't seen the OS 12.10 yet, but I shall be following things very closely.
I hope this isn't going to frighten away potential users as the Free software principal is important.
Regards, Matthew
jgroom:
Well I've been using 12.10 since it came out and as of yet I've had no South African carpet-baggers show up at my door. :loco: But seriously, all of the 'free' software services (yahoo, google, bing, facebook, etc.) have been data-mining it's users for years regardless of your OS. There's nothing free without someone making a profit.
OK, now I've depressed myself. :palm:
Cheers :beer:
Jeff
mattinker:
Jeff,
from what I've read, this was introduced in October 2012, so if you've been using an earlier version and haven't updated it you're not concerned by it!
Regards, Matthew
hopefuldave:
I'm going to second the "XP if you need Windows"!
Anything after XP (Vista onwards) has, I believe, Digital Rights Management built in - it's intended to "prevent" media piracy but I found it wouldn't let me use my "racket room" PC any more when I tried to upgrade!
It objected to the audio inputs and outputs being 24-bit instead of 16 (so up to "professional" pirate standard), the fact my PC had 16 channels each of full-duplex inputs and outputs, and the fact I didn't have DRM licences for music *I had made myself*. It locked the machine down to 2 16-bit inputs and 2 16-bit outputs as the hardware wasn't on the "approved" list.
After making enquiries, I found Microshaft would sell me a licence to play / record *my own* music, but the price made me faint...
I went back to XP Pro, and stuck with old, stable software...
Most of the XP "updates" which will be cut off soon are for known Microsoft-authored vulnerabilities to viruses etc., not really an issue for a machine that's kept off-line (e.g. home studio, CAD/CAM machines that sit in quiet isolation Doing A Job).
Just my ha'pennorth,
Dave H. (the other one)
BillTodd:
Have to agree with Dave I don't believe Vista/Win7/Win8 etc. have made add anything positive to windows (the last great leap being NT4/2K IMHO)
With Linux (Ubuntu) adding all sorts of unwanted crap to an otherwise fine O/S it make me wonder where to go when MS finally push* us off XP
Bill
*MS seem to do this by issuing new compilers to software developers. The new compilers create code that simply won't run on what MS consider to be obsolete O/Ss
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