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You can change the DNSs too. At least you can choose to use OpenDNS or not in the first place.
You can choose to buy Dell or not in the first place as well. (And if you say that people can have Dell products forced upon them by their company, well, they can have OpenDNS forced upon them by their network administrator as well.)
Whatever openDNS is doing, it doesn't make Google and Dell right. Users should not have to live with built-in advertisement in their laptop. I don't think it matters how easy it is to uninstall, it's still wrong. I would even get rid of logos on monitors and lids: this is a computer, not a t-shirt.
OK, look, I'm going to try and reply to this in the politest possible way, but sometimes I find that difficult when faced with statements like this. I really don't understand where people get off preaching about other people's business decisions. In what way is Dell installing whatever software they like, on a computer they build and sell, "wrong"? What law of nature states that computers shouldn't have logos on them…
Google's "Do No Evil" motto has apparently jumped the shark...
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OK, look, I'm going to try and reply to this in the politest possible way, but sometimes I find that difficult when faced with statements like this. I really don't understand where people get off preaching about other people's business decisions. In what way is Dell installing whatever software they like, on a computer they build and sell, "wrong"? What law of nature states that computers shouldn't have logos on them…
Some things are wrong even though they're not illegal. And it's only natural to get angry about such things even if you aren't the one who's affected.
What OpenDNS is doing is far more pernicious than what Dell did. You can remove Dell's software and still use your computer. If you're making the mistake of relying on OpenDNS, there's little you can do to avoid their proxy. You'd want to say this is a horrible precedent, but it's not unprecedented --- it's exactly what Verisign tried to pull on us a few years back.
Why are we bubbling up a year-old story?
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/march#thu-13-opendns
I apologize for using an over inflamatory tone in my link title. I had tried to temper it with the explanation that they claim to have a good reason, but I see that this wasn't as effective as I intended.
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Some things are wrong even though they're not illegal. And it's only natural to get angry about such things even if you aren't the one who's affected.
Well it may be natural to feel that way, but it sure ain't rational.