| |||||||||||||
Forcing updatesForcing updatesPosted Feb 12, 2009 23:47 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)In reply to: Forcing updates by eli Parent article: Forcing updates
Forced updates *are* applicable in certain situations -- see mattdm's case above -- but only where the user who sits in front of the computer is obliged, or willing, to delegate system administration tasks to the OS supplier. In the Boston University situation, the OS supplier *is* the administrator and vice versa, so there's no ambiguity.
But if we're talking about a supplier like Red Hat or Mandriva effectively becoming the system administrator for 90% of their less-technical users, all bets are off. They don't have the resources to properly run millions of machines without charge or to respond to the cases where automatic updates inconvenience their non-paying users.
OTOH it's something they or similar businesses could take on, maybe profitably, given the right wording in the contract and the right price -- using mandatory automated updates merely to make it possible.
Technical Unix users will take on their own system administrator role whenever they feel like it, whether their network admins or their OS suppliers want them to or not. So you're *not* the subject of this discussion and won't suffer, one way or the other, as long as you choose to run free software :-)
(Log in to post comments)
Forcing updates Posted Feb 20, 2009 5:04 UTC (Fri) by Drone (guest, #56757) [Link]
> Forced updates *are* applicable in certain situations
But only in CERTAIN scenarios. If you will attempt to break in and "administer" MY computer, I will consider this as attempt to remove MY FREEDOM, violate my privacy and so on. It's my computer and it have to obey to ME. So if you will try to do otherwise, I will put all my forces to enforce you (and anyone involved) to administer only your toilet until end of your days. That's a only fate any tyrant deserves (administrative tyrants are not exception). Do not mix your sucking enterprises with corporate half-slaves behind computers and free people who does not receives salary from you so they have zero tolerance to your attempts to invade into their private lives. Also I can recommend to half-slaves to stop being such ignorant morons so someone always allowed to takeover your power to make decisions. Power to make decisions on your own is a great thing. This is what really called as freedom, actually.
|
|||||||||||||