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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? : -P )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.162223.7866@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec19.234354.7364@pegasus.com> <1992Dec21.204309.20046@cs.odu.edu> <rice.725054644@willow23> <1992Dec28.074914.7584@microsoft.com>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:22:23 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.074914.7584@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
-
- >A not-very-common windows 3.0 setup problem is caused by the windows original
- >disks being infected with a virus (microsoft is very careful about the
- >"health" of the master diskettes and even duplicates disks on machines
- >running xenix, so even if the duplicator gets infected it can't affect the
- >MS-DOS-based or Macintosh-based software on the disks). Each case we know
- >about, the software had been installed previously on an infected system
- >(and sometimes returned, re-shrinkwrapped, and re-sold). No such problem is
- >known about windows 3.1. Windows 3.0 shipped on writable disks; windows 3.1
- >(and the ms-dos 5 upgrade, and most new products being released) are shipped
- >on "permanently" write-protected disks.
-
- >From a support standpoint, this is seriously cool (unless the user cut
- >a notch in a set of 5.25"s, no viruses, no accidently-deleted-the-file-we
- >-need, etc :)
-
- There is also one other thing that this does that I like. It
- eliminates those annoying 'guilt screen' registrations that want to
- write back to your original disks with your name, etc. I routinely
- write-protect the original disks for any software I buy, and it's
- incredibly annoying to have to make a copy of disk #1 in order to
- reinstall Word for Windows or Excel on my machine (because I most
- definitely will not let the thing write to the originals).
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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