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Open Source And Viruses

Open Source And Viruses

Posted Jun 5, 2004 17:58 UTC (Sat) by piman (subscriber, #8957)
In reply to: Open Source And Viruses by rakoch
Parent article: Open Source And Viruses

> I heard that the Lindows default user is root, for instance.

This has not been the case for over a year; please stop repeating it.


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Open Source And Viruses

Posted Jun 5, 2004 19:42 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

In all fairness, Lindows brought this on themselves with that decision. It was a mistake at many levels, but one of them was PR.

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