Copyright © 2007 by Zack Smith.
All rights reserved.
My Windows & MSDOS freeware page
Although I've written software for
Linux over the years, I tend to be agnostic
about Windows & DOS.
Although like everyone I dislike
the spyware and backdoors that are built-in to
Windows, and Vista only makes that worse.
But the free software ethic can flourish on
these platforms as well, in theory at least,
and so long as
I am using either, I will tend to create
software for them.
- Wanderlust (for Windows), a simple outline-editing tool.
This is a little gem of a program that I wrote
for keeping organized. Covered by the GNU Public License.
- Walden (for MSDOS), a simple word processor
that reads and writes simple RTF and HTML files,
and prints to PostScript. Coded using Turbo C++.
Windows risks?
Pre-Vista
I alluded above to some problematic features of Windows and
here are some sources to back that up.
Vista
I suggest that you do not use Vista connected to the Internet.
There is some evidence that Vista communicates with servers
at Halliburton, Department of Defense, and possibly Department of Homeland Security.
Information about this phenomenon has been appearing briefly and then
disappearing on the Internet, which can be viewed as suspicious.
Best to be safe: If you need to use a Windows program,
try running it in the Wine emulator.
Source:
Infopackets article
The original location of an article about this was
Whitedust.net, based in Ireland. It was shut down shortly
after the article about Vista's connection to the US government and Halliburton
appeared and under what I felt were suspicious circumstances.
A copy then appeared at Abandonia and that too disappeared.
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