http://techrights.org/2009/10/01/selling-defective-software/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://techrights.org/2009/10/01/selling-defective-software/comment-page-1/#comment-73809 Yuhong Bao Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:30:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19274#comment-73809 Yep, I remember when Woody criticized OneCare. From http://www.askwoody.com/2008/2233/: "If you’ve seen any of my Windows XP or Vista books, you know that I rake Microsoft over the coals about OneCare. It’s payola, pure and simple: how in the world can Microsoft charge you for protecting yourself from flaws in Microsoft’s software? The day Microsoft released OneCare in May 2006, I bellered, and I haven’t stopped bellyaching since. " But they seem to like Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro), partly because it is free unlike OneCare. From http://www.askwoody.com/2009/microsoft-security-essentials-today/: "I like it so much that I’ve thrown away my old antivirus programs and replaced them. All of them." Yep, I remember when Woody criticized OneCare.
From http://www.askwoody.com/2008/2233/:
“If you’ve seen any of my Windows XP or Vista books, you know that I rake Microsoft over the coals about OneCare. It’s payola, pure and simple: how in the world can Microsoft charge you for protecting yourself from flaws in Microsoft’s software? The day Microsoft released OneCare in May 2006, I bellered, and I haven’t stopped bellyaching since. ”
But they seem to like Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro), partly because it is free unlike OneCare.
From http://www.askwoody.com/2009/microsoft-security-essentials-today/:
“I like it so much that I’ve thrown away my old antivirus programs and replaced them. All of them.”

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