[wellylug] Use caution with 'free' software...

[Joe Mahoney]

Sounds like they're talking about free as in beer...

On 9/27/07, John Fouhy <john at fouhy.net> wrote:
> From the latest Consumer, in an article on EULAs (I think this is
> available online only):
>
> """
> Use caution with 'free' software. It is rarely free. There's often a
> trade-off in advertising, access to personal information or use of
> your computer's resources. For example, peer-to-peer (P2P) file
> sharing programs use your computer to send information across the web
> which may leave it vulnerable to viruses, software flaws and trojans
> (malicious programs hiding in benign applications).
> """
>
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> John.
> [in an iCafe with no time to write a long email]
>
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