"Tom Walker" bravely wrote to "Wayne Chirnside" (03 Mar
05  07:58:06)
 --- on the heady topic of "Win98FE Harddrivicide?"

 -> Heh.
 -> That one I'd like an answer to.
 -> MicroSloth has lost me as a user precisely for their monoplistic and
 -> paranoid activation schemes.

 -> Why must they overwrite the MBR to install their software?

Branding the "number of the beast" and backdoor hooks for the spooks.


 TW> TO get even with YOU for DARING to try and use anothwer Operating
 TW> System.  Rembember when they STABBED Digital Research people i nthe
 TW> BACK by changing the Win3.1 code behind their Back so it would not run
 TW> right under DR-DOS. DR quickly put out a patch but their FATE was
 TW> sealed. They lost most of their market.

That's the kind of tactic where they would have an assembler operation
that used to leave some set flag pattern and register values alone but
then suddenly at the next version the flags and registers are
corrupted. That's nice and vexing if your $10,000 system used the old
op before they changed it without notice and the hardware comes to a
grinding halt. B.A.S.T.A.R.S.S.S.S.S...

 Mike

... SET BUGS OFF ; DO WHAT I WANT ; QUIT
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30