[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[David Froble]

MG wrote:
> On 25-5-2012 20:26, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> On 5/25/2012 9:30 AM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
>>> Times were different then. I wonder what DEC would be like today had it
>>> survived? Would it be the same as HP is today? One would think not, but
>>> to survive, it might have had to change....
>>
>> There is no question that DEC would have to change! DEC failed to change
>> and is now a fond memory. R.I.P. Digital Equipment Corp.
> 
> Since you put it like that, I'm almost (emphasis on "almost") glad that
> DEC died.  At least DEC died honorably.
> 
>  - MG

There is a not so fine line between pushy marketing and making changes to someone's 
computer without their knowledge and authorization.

Consider the root kits Sony installed on computers if you played one of their CDs.  Sony 
should have been hit with a truly astounding fine for that action.

The problem is it's much harder to catch such, than it is to catch someone who enters and 
robs a bank, and, too many people don't get angry enough over it.