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Originally Posted by mr6n8
I do not view the position of Gizmo's as an attack. If it were an "attack", then products with OC would have been banned.
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To follow up on my comment in my post that's still awaiting moderation, this is the kind of thing that I meant (from
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Originally Posted by NessUSE
To me, this ranks right up there with Sony when they were installing root-kits on PC's so that people couldn't rip a music CD. Freeware distributors want to package OpenCandy with their software, fine, just tell me about it up front so I can decided immediately that I don't want your software. You want to be underhanded and try and sneak it by me, then hopefully Gizmo's will flag it so that I know better.
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This is way over-the-top. I'm almost expecting
Godwin's Law to come to fruition.
What Sony did is in no way comparable. They hid a rootkit! There's simply no comparison at all.