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Cybergrass: Many Bluegrass Fans Don’t Live in a Microsoft World

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 25, 2006

“The problem is that Microsoft has just been caught allegedly
placing their own spyware in their update patches. Their Genuine
Advantage program was doing this. Do I trust Microsoft? Not at all.
I needed to use Windows because it was necessity but now, Open
Source seems to be the way to go.

“Then, there was the upgrade to their Media Player 9 that also
destroyed my old Windows system by installing another flavor of
Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. This was what caused me
to trash Windows and switch to Linux. Microsoft’s DRM was the straw
that broke this camel’s back. It became history…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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