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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by nemothekid on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:55PM (#33278293)
>Yet the sky is not falling with all this going on with everyone's computer on earth, like how people fear the sky will fall if we opened up the mobile phone.

This is because everything was moved to the web and users were beaten over the head with a hammer to never install anything on their computers. The sky was falling and subsequently the desktop software platform hardly exists today.

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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by TillE on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:20PM (#33278616)
I expect Microsoft's built-in antivirus helped a lot too, but yeah, the Windows XP era (c. 2001-2010 probably) was an absolute disaster of malware.
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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by anikom15 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:08PM (#33282009)
How exactly was the sky falling?
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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by aasasd on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:11AM (#33287641)
http://static.spiceworks.com/images/how_to_steps/0000/3886/t...
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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by anikom15 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:06PM (#33352592)
This is funny, but in practice there would be maybe one or two of these bars. Many didn’t work together. These toolbars didn’t stop people from being able to work, eat, or pay their bills. I know. I lived through this era.
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