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

[Sam Vilain]

John Fouhy 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).
> """

Or draw you into a life of spending your days hacking on bizarre bits of
software and yabbering on IRC and mailing lists into the wee hours ...
consider THAT cost.

Sam.