> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:16:05 -0400
> From: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I attempted to send a message to the list a few days ago,
> that quoted Ed Foster of Info-World, and some of his correspondents.
>
> For some reason, that note never reached the list. One of the items
> was that MS has dragooned its slave hardware distributors NOT to
> provide the Windows 98 OS disk with the computer that it is installed
> on. As a result, if your disk dies, you have no MS Windows to reinstall.
> Not only that, when you try to install certain software, and it says,
> "Insert your Windows 98 CD in the drive," you are SOL. AND, Ms has done
> this on the sneak. It has not announced this policy, you find out at
> your own risk. (I.e., when you look for the disk.)
>
> The Info-World article quoted some of Foster's correspondents, one of
> whom quoted an unnamed MS official, as saying that the medialess
> sales were designed to eliminate those who would try other OS's,
> like LInux, since if anything should go wrong, there would be no
> back-out strategy available.
>
> The thread seems to have run from about the first week in May to the
> first week in June, and you can find it on line with
> http://www.infoworld.com
> and then go to the columns or the opinions or whatever, looking for
> Ed Foster.
>
> You should be warned about the medialess Windows 98 policy, and you
> should think about this arrogance right in the face of the Jackson
> ruling, to see how you think about MS. Not only the competition
> gets it in the eye, so does the end user!
Note: <OT> added to subject line.
I saw this somewhere else (probably off a link on the LinuxToday web
site). I suspect it has at least as much to do with trying to lower
piracy as it does with discouraging people from experimenting with
other OSes.
Dave
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