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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:20:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.052044.20898@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec29.142331.777@mec.ohio.gov> <1hrga6INN2d0@access.usask.ca>
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- In article <1hrga6INN2d0@access.usask.ca> lowey@jester.usask.ca (CrazyMan) writes:
- >oecn_smith@mec.ohio.gov wrote:
- >: In article <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu>, laird@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
- >: > shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- >: > I'd sure love some simple security...
- >: Hmmm, I must be simpleminded, but setting permission to read-only should keep
- >: the casual user from doing to much harm.
- >That will work. Also, don't forget about the ALT-F1 trick when booting your
- >computer. That will copy the CONFIG.SYS, and .INI files from the /OS2/INSTALL
- >directory back to the proper place. So, if someone deleted CONFIG.SYS
- >you just ALT-F1 when you boot up, and it's back again.
-
- You're right. That'd fix it up, alright. But consider the setting:
- Big, busy computer show. Take some relatively unattended demo
- computers -- necessary if you want to attract people -- maybe I'm in
- a class by myself, but I HATE having ill-informed, unsophisticated
- sales reps hanging over me while I try out some interesting hardware
- and software... but I digress. Now sabotage the demo computers at
- every opportunity (but don't get caught) and a lot of people unfamiliar
- with the product and no knowledge of how to resurrect it will come
- along and see your product dead or not at all. This need not form a
- negative opinion... it need only form NO opinion... after all, the
- users wouldn't see anything at all. So even your most fair-minded
- COMDEXer would be left no basis for an opinion. If Microsoft is
- really so malicious, that would suit their purpose more than adequately.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-