That was a mighty big stretch. I did not state or even imply what you claim. I also gave examples that involved airplanes and EKG machines.
I do think this is all smoke to obscure the real issue: piss-poor software engineering on the part of MS. Of course you don't want to respond to that. >> But you went after my point not anything that Tom said. > >I re-read my message, and I can see how you could have read it that way. My >intent, however, was to point out that Tom's message assumed that the >problem was, in fact, DRM-related (which, again, I very much doubt): > >"It is just like designing electronic door locks that won't open when the >building loses power. The mindset is to always protect the goods even if it >may turn the customers into crispy critters." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
