{"id":1416,"date":"2005-05-31T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2005-05-31T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T00:00:12","slug":"losing_control_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Losing Control of Your PC (Dell, this time), continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200505\/msg00296.html\">Art Wolinsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Wait a minute&#8230; Let me see if I have this right. You installed Dell Support on my computer and then tell me that if I don&#8217;t want the upgrade, I&#8217;m going to have to pay you help me get off what you put on?<br \/>\nAfter some discussion, it is absolutely clear that is the case with &#8220;no exceptions&#8221;. Any software support I need, no matter what the nature of that support, I am going to have to pay for.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Similar to Microsoft charging for anti-virus software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Wolinsky: Wait a minute&#8230; Let me see if I have this right. You installed Dell Support on my computer and then tell me that if I don&#8217;t want the upgrade, I&#8217;m going to have to pay you help me get off what you put on? After some discussion, it is absolutely clear that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}