|
![](/i/fill.gif) |
Warp wrote:
> It's one thing that a program collects some data about how it's being used
> and phones home with it (is that even legal?),
They ask you if you want to participate, so yeah, I'd guess so.
> and a completely different
> thing when single person makes one post in a forum, causing a significant
> improvement to be made to the distro. I can see the latter happening quite
> often in the Linux world.
It's definitely easier to make a difference as an individual contributor.
It's also the case that even a small company can make a difference in
Microsoft's stuff. Like the company that did the first defrag program for NT
designed the APIs for that and told MS how to write it.
And I would guess security vulnerabilities found by an individual can get
them fixed.
But yah, definitely not as *rewarding* as doing it in Linux. You'll
certainly not get the sort of recognition for improving MS software, if
nothing else.
> I think some features of Vista are a sign that Microsoft is not always
> so good at implementing what people want. (Yes, people wanted more security,
> but not of the type that MS implemented in Vista.)
Well, as I said, people want it for free, too. :-) Overall, they did a
pretty good job with UAC, but it needed tuning. And people aren't that used
to having to deal with it in Windows. *Some* of what they do users don't
want (like signed drivers) but MS does for their own good.
I was thinking more the DRM stuff, myself.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
Post a reply to this message
|
![](/i/fill.gif) |