Weatherbug for Linux

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 01 December 2006 22:51, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I agree it's nice to see companies beginning to recognize Linux.
>
> But to this particular company I'll give a heartfelt "No Thanks!".
>
> Weatherbug is a rather unbearable piece of adware that I can do without. It
> slows Windows systems down to a crawl and just generally is a bad actor.
> It's one of the first things I put a bullet in when doing a cleanup on a
> Windows box.

Yup...  I did some googling and found lots of info about it's bad behavior.  I 
did find a letter from the company saying that the stories weren't true...   
but yet they have to pay for things somehow.

I retract my statement about the survey.   <blush>