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fts@cris.com (Chester Karma) writes:
>Kevin MacNeil <kmacneil@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> writes:
>>You are wrong:
>>1.  The issue is *privacy*

>True, it's a clear-cut violation of privacy. That wasn't the point. In ANY 
>case where you could feasibly be caught for doing something (such as pirating 
>software), the people that complain the loudest are usually the people who 
>would get burned by it. (USUALLY, I stress, I'm not saying everyone against 
>Microsnooping is a pirate)

I don't know what you're talking about.  

>>2.  There is a big difference between what is unethical and what is
>>illegal.  MicroSoft will get around the problem of lawsuits by putting one
>>of those insipid "OK?" dialog boxes on the screen before it goes scroung
>>-ing.  They'll likely have great success with the new or otherwise naive
>>users who'll flock to MS Network when it opens. 

>True, but new or naive users don't know any better anyway, and Microsoft 
>won't get the demographics they want.

I think new or naive users make for the best possible demographics, because
they assume that all problems are due to their own ignorance rather than,
say, a bad program or a broken OS.  An confused, unquestioning user base is
the stuff of which fortunes are made.
-- 
      Kevin MacNeil            \      Memorial University of Newfoundland
kmacneil@morgan.ucs.mun.ca      /            English & Philosophy