Microsoft gets the names of everyone who wants a different choice; I never did get my Christmas card from them.
Microsoft has flexed its legal muscle and forced a company to turn over all information about all subscribers to its site, including email and snailmail addresses.
WTF?!??
So the message I’m getting, as a consumer, is 1) always lie like a cheap rug to online companies, because even if they don’t misuse the information they may be forced to give it to someone who will; and 2) Microsoft believes that it is a nation-like entity, with the ability to bully information and cooperation out of smaller countri— uh, companies. This latest action does very little to inspire consumer confidence in online commerce.
So, everyone join me in my action. Go to the Lindows site. Sign up for their email list, using an email address that you won’t mind deleting later when you start receiving spam from Microsoft’s sycophants (but will still be able to access the email because, hey, it’s a company and a product that offer alternatives to being Yet Another Bitch of the Redmond Menace.) When asked for your address, no matter where you live, list your state as “not Washington state”.
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