Linux provided extremely fast email processing right from the beginning

> rm -rf *

read mail - "real fast" (all mail)

What you ask for, essentially is censorship. I personally believe that democracies need freedom of speech and no pre-filtering of information. That filtering can be done by a larger number of journalists with different opinions. But it must not be done by an individual at the very top of the information chain. After all, which person could every have the personal integrity to do this censoring?

Though this may not be the ultimate solution to the problem I tend to "fetch" my mail, either using POP or IMAP and remove the copy from the server. Though this does not save me from being eavesdropped, I still have the feeling that it will reduce the amount of information about me on the server side in the long run.

Yes, what a coincidence that we see this study now, right before the (forbidden) launch of Vista and the end of the lawsuit.

I also wonder whether the claim is true. The money for updating or migrating to MS Windows will have to be earned by the companties before being spent and it goes to Microsoft in the first place. However, spending it on research, education or migration to Linux would probably lead to a larger return on investment. Or in other words: Can you really tell to which kinds of additional profits the update to Vista will lead?