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  1. December 20th, 2003, 06:42 PM #11
    phishphreek
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    wow. thanks for posting that Wazz.

    My parinoia was right... there is pleanty of room for misuse with this "fix".
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  2. December 20th, 2003, 07:10 PM #12
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    Good catch Wazz. That's rather disappointing. A perfect opportunity to make Microsoft squirm a little, and instead they choose to be opportunistic and predatory...
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  3. December 20th, 2003, 10:12 PM #13
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    ..... And therein lies the problem with non-commercial open source software..... You can never really be sure of the intent of the author(s).

    Closed source commercial software know that this is the "kiss of death" for their wallet and they know full well that there are plenty of people out there that monitor every action of their software. So they don't do this kind of thing.

    NB: This is not a flame attempt - simply an observation..... Return flames will be ignored...
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  4. December 20th, 2003, 11:52 PM #14
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    So true guys......Well, it could've been alot worse...that patch was downloaded over 6500 times from that site alone. Goes to show.....
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