On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:03:39PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: >>> The "upgrades" I've been getting from Microsoft over the last year seem >>> to break various features of legacy stuff... >> >> I know. But it also happens in the GNU/Linux world. I just had a note >> on my Ubuntu desktop machine telling me I had to reboot (that is not >> good because I should almost never have to reboot and it is a big >> hassle). So I rebooted and Gnome would not come back up. It said that >> it couldn't find pulse-session. Well, that's because I uninstalled it. >> Unfortunately, the uninstaller didn't know to delete one of the X11 >> initialization files. I had no idea what was going on but I happened >> to know a few tricks that I learned recently. So I started with... > > There is a difference between that kind of bug, and the kind of bugging > that Micrsoft and others (Quicken is my notable example) employ, in > other to force you to part with your cash in the hope of keeping things > working. They may do it intentionally, but I'm not sure that we can prove it. Clearly the Ubuntu folks didn't mess up my system intentionally. > A newbie who goes around uninstalling things will get his comeuppance. In my case, the sound card didn't work until I uninstalled pulse audio. So the newbie on my system would have had a comeuppance either way. Mike