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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple will no longer fix Quicktime security bugs (only solution is to uninstall)
Date: 18 Apr 2016 18:21:33 GMT
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On 2016-04-18, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <nf37ns$enq$1@dont-email.me>, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>
>> >>>> That's kind of the point of this whole sub-thread: iTunes is considered
>> >>>> by many people to be bloatware because it contains so much functionality
>> >>>> that the user interface is unwieldy,
>> >>> That's not why I consider it bloatware. I consider it bloatware 
>> >>> because it installs a bunch of stuff that isn't needed. 
>> >> You're basically saying the same thing. Those things it installs support
>> >> features you claim aren't needed. But other people do want those features.
>> >> I know because I'm one of them.
>> > 
>> > the only reason he thinks they aren't needed is because he doesn't know
>> > what they do.
>> > 
>> > for instance, with bonjour, just plug in a printer and start printing
>> > without having to configure anything. 
>> > 
>> > they also don't use any cpu resources when idle so there is no downside.
>> 
>> As a Mac owner, I never take anything for granted.
>> 
>> http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/15/disable-bonjour-by-turning-off-mdnsresponder/
>
> that's *seven years old*
>
> ..snip..

It's also not about Windows...

>> I don't see any reason to dump on users who are
>> savvy enough to recognize problems and deal with them.
>
> they're not removing stuff because of problems. they're removing stuff
> when there's no problem at all, done entirely out of ignorance.

Yep. What we see in this thread so far are people bitching about the
mere *existence* of software packages that were installed, regardless of
the functionality they enable. Instead, they seem to *assume* the
packages are completely worthless, which is untrue.

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