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echo: nthelp
to: Geo.
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2004-02-23 06:01:26
subject: Re: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-051.html

> From: "Geo." 
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:403924b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I'd not count anything which is not sold as being part of windows. i.e.
>> if Office becomes bundled then yes it would be. WMP is bundled, PWS is
>> bundled etc.
> Ok, so if GAIM is bundled with RH then it's a RH exploit right?

Yup. But that doesn't make it a linux exploit any more than if Dell or Sony
bundled it with Windows it would be a windows exploit. 

> BTW, most folks consider Outlook (not express) to be a windows exploit even
> though it's part of Office not part of Windows.

I don't. Then again I view Outlook as an exploit per se....but that's IMHO.

> May just be confusion
> between Outlook and OE or may be because of the system address book but
> either way it's still done.

Yup.

Adam

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