Vista EULA alert
February 14th, 2007
While most of us ( including me) were focusing on Vista’s new features it looks that some were concentrating on the more boring but nonetheless important end user licensing agreement. You all know about it, it’s that big screen of text you never read but you have to agree to in order to install any software.
As I was saying there are some that read the fine print and think about it. And they should, for that agreement contains lots of information you bound yourself to when you use a certain software. In our case the software is Windows Vista and it seems that the new Vista EULA contains serious limitations and privacy issues.
As you can read here, the agreement allows Microsoft to check the legitimacy of software on a machine and to delete programs considered as dangerous without asking the user. Besides, when you activate Vista on a device the software is associated with that specific piece of hardware and it sends automatically information about your hardware to Microsoft.
This all might be a false alarm but I strongly advice that you read the ‘fine prints’ in ALL your software, and specially the Vista EULA as it might take from you the control over your own computer.
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Well, that could be a start in the computers’ journey to take over the universe;)
Do I need to remind anyone that the NSA had a hand in the creation of this incredibly expensive, powerful, diverse and useful piece of legal, marketed spyware?
Heh, truly we all should have seen this coming, pretty ridiculous if you ask me. In all honesty its just yet another reason I will NEVER buy or use Vista, I will stick to my custom XP.
It’s a darn shame that we purchase a piece of hardware so that the software can tell us basically that we don’t own it.
Use Linux instead. I recommend Ubuntu. Once you’ve tried it you’ll never go back to proprietary software. Of course there are short comings like Windows based games and other software whose companies are in bed with Gates. For that have a dual boot system. You don’t need to buy anti-virus software with Linux either.
Get the Internet Freedom Disk and be done with Windows. Maybe is should be called the Windows Freedom Disk … who knows?
Yes, who knows.
We shall wait and we shall see
Linux is a very good choice! I’ve used Ubuntu and other distros like PCLinuxOS, and they’re extraordinary. But I can’t give up my Windows machine, there’s to much software that I can only run on Windows (run easily that is).