On 12/16/2012 6:03 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
Hello Mr. Stallman,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
You've made a false accusation when you call my criticisms of Windows
"FUD". The references for these criticisms are in
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html.
You can't have had any evidence for your false accusation. You must
have leaped to the conclusion. This bespeaks hostility towards me.
I think the burden of proof is on you here. You said that Windows
contains spyware, DRM and backdoors, and only presented an article that
discusses the DRM.
To be fair, the "backdoor" to which RMS refers involves an incident in which
Windows Update updated itself even when users had specifically turned off
updates from the OS configuration facility for such things. I don't mean to
speak for RMS, but I believe he's suggesting that Windows still has these latent
capabilities. Nobody can prove otherwise.
The "spyware" claim refers to Windows Update sending a list of installed
programs along with its "do you have an update for me?" chat with the update
server.