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Re:Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software by slgeorge on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:54AM (#13499209)
Yeah, agreed it was against user expectation - it's a great demonstration of what happens when organisations don't prepare their audience well or read the emotional response.

It's a personal frustration and professional regret that desktop Linux is under-funded to compete on an equal footing - the business model challenge feels intractable. RedHat/SUSE, Mandriva and Canonical have tried different options. But, there's been no sustained success that can get desktop Linux over 5% of market. Perhaps Google will have more success with ChromeOS.

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Re:Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software by digi_owl on Friday January 27, 2017 @08:53AM (#13499762)
The basic problem is that none of them are interested in actually keeping APIs stable. Likely because their big income stream is support contracts.

Observe by contrast the efforts Google goes to with the Android APIs.

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Re:Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software by edejong on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:34AM (#13505603)
It had nothing to do with reading emotions or preparing expectations and everything to do with being stubborn, arrogant and aloof.
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Re:Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software by slgeorge on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:27AM (#13505847)
You're passionate and certain in your beliefs - probably from a strong philosophical basis; My opinions are formed by my practical "experiences" and hard work for 10 years in this space. There's never been a good quality discussion when philosophical certainty crashes against pragmatic experience!

You're clearly angry, but I don't deserve the implication of being called stubborn, arrogant or aloof.

I've already apologised to you for pushing your comment side-ways in the other thread - I'm not sure what else you'd like from me at this point.

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Re:Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software by edejong on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:18PM (#13509805)
I am certainly not calling you stubborn, arrogant or aloof, I'm terribly sorry if you got that impression and I definitely did not want to imply this.
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