I run linux for most things, too.
However, there are fool pieces of hardware that I have to keep MS junk around for, and if you have it, you’ve got more than just MS -— kind of like all those germs you have lurking around on your skin and in your body just because you’re living.
If any virus/ malware infestation carried substantial penalties for non compliance of notice, including losing all rights to the software associated with the allowed malware, we might see some benefits from this type of legislation. What the House just proposed does nothing useful.
Agreed. And I sympathize with your hardware issues. It's kinda funny--we just bought a new HP printer a month or so ago since our Epson was showing its age. My wife's Windows machine cannot load the drivers for it, while my Linux boxen can see it and connect to it flawlessly.