"the wharf rat" <wrat@panix.com> wrote in message
news:fm8t13$cke$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In article <87B27DC4-5B5D-47A7-90C9-52446881ED3F@microsoft.com>,
> Bobby McNulty <snyder100@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>Not really.
>>
>
> Yes, really.
>
> A properly designed system might go so far as to warn you and
> ask for an acceptance. REFUSING to run software unless the vendor has
> bribed MS to sign it is a stupid misdesign promulgated by a company
> convinced that because they wield monopoly power they can continue to
> gouge their own vendors as much as they do their customers.
>
> It's a STUPID DESIGN BUG MEANT TO LOCK IN ANOTHER REVENUE STREAM
> AND SET CONTENT PROVIDER CONTROL OVER DRM IN DIGITAL STONE. A BUG, do
> you hear me??? Bug! Bug! BUUUGGGGGGG!!!!!!

Because you do not like it, does NOT make it a bug. A bug is defined where
it relates to this area as...

a defect or imperfection, as in a mechanical device, computer program, or
plan; glitch

Since it is done knowingly and by design, it cannot therefore be a bug. I
would rather have the drivers signed as it forces the mfr to step up and get
it right. A PRIME example is nVidia's lack of S.M.A.R.T. capability in their
Vista SATA drivers. If they can make it work in XP there is no reason it
shouldn't under Vista. I would say if Microsoft pisses you off THAT badly,
perhaps you should go to an Apple system. Or perhaps a flavor of Linux.

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