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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1122554" data-attributes="member: 96560">I wasn&#039;t born loving Linux. My first use of it was back in 2005/6 - OpenBSD, a Canadian outfit. I was fed up with Windows XP&#039;s lack of security, and OpenBSD was promising &quot;secure out of the box&quot;. They pioneered providing strong public encryption at a time when the US was banning cryptography exports. The environment was totally different. The installer itself was command line ( still is ) and one has to choose to install X Windows as an option. Read the help files, learned a lot about security because OpenBSD is security focused and had good documentation. It&#039;s another world - Everything is Transparent and documented unlike with Windows.At about the same time&nbsp; there was a big push at MS to be more secure and they brought out Windows Vista in 2007. So I went back to Windows to take a look, and stayed.But this Recall thing is a serious deal breaker. MS has plans for this captured data. They know in advance that there will be negative public reaction, they aren&#039;t short sighted. And the fact that they are pushing it out despite all the outcry means something.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1122554, member: 96560"] I wasn't born loving Linux. My first use of it was back in 2005/6 - OpenBSD, a Canadian outfit. I was fed up with Windows XP's lack of security, and OpenBSD was promising "secure out of the box". They pioneered providing strong public encryption at a time when the US was banning cryptography exports. The environment was totally different. The installer itself was command line ( still is ) and one has to choose to install X Windows as an option. Read the help files, learned a lot about security because OpenBSD is security focused and had good documentation. It's another world - Everything is Transparent and documented unlike with Windows. At about the same time there was a big push at MS to be more secure and they brought out Windows Vista in 2007. So I went back to Windows to take a look, and stayed. But this Recall thing is a serious deal breaker. MS has plans for this captured data. They know in advance that there will be negative public reaction, they aren't short sighted. And the fact that they are pushing it out despite all the outcry means something. [/QUOTE]

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