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The problem with pre-installed is... spyware

The problem with pre-installed is... spyware

Posted Mar 2, 2007 14:25 UTC (Fri) by Lorenzo (guest, #260)
In reply to: The problem with pre-installed is... by marduk
Parent article: Major systems vendors and Linux

Let's also recall that Dell has been accused of installing spyware on its Windows systems.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/dell_my_way_contr...
and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyWay_Searchbar

Frankly, I'd prefer that Dell offered a laptop (or other desktop, workstations, ...) with no OS of any kind, but with known good hardware that is known to work with generic kernels and readily available modules.

Having them try and pick and choose one or more distributions at minimum will piss off those whose distribution isn't available from dell.


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