Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windowswww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1262arrow-down19
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minus-squarejust another dev@lemmy.my-box.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·4 months ago We all hate Microsoft for turning Windows into an ad platform but they aren’t wrong. Sorry, how is that related to the stability of the kernel?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months agoI explained in my second sentence. “They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone low level access to the OS.” If you install a buggy driver into Linux and it crashes, that’s not a problem with the Linux kernel. https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic
minus-squarejust another dev@lemmy.my-box.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·4 months agoI fully agree with you on that front, but ads have nothing to do with kernel access, so how is that relevant to their legal requirements?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoI was explaining why everyone hates on Microsoft but the Crowdstrike crash had nothing to do with the reasons people hate MS.
Sorry, how is that related to the stability of the kernel?
I explained in my second sentence.
“They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone low level access to the OS.”
If you install a buggy driver into Linux and it crashes, that’s not a problem with the Linux kernel.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic
I fully agree with you on that front, but ads have nothing to do with kernel access, so how is that relevant to their legal requirements?
I was explaining why everyone hates on Microsoft but the Crowdstrike crash had nothing to do with the reasons people hate MS.
Gotcha.