Re: States' suits unconstitutional? Hardly.

[Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw>]

Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org) wrote --

> Also, software is not like a book. Very rarely (perhaps never) is
> everything on the CD installed. Device drivers you don't need, for
> example, don't get copied to the hard drive, and no one expects the
> manufacturer to waste space on a machine's hard disk by doing that.

Brett!!! When was the last time you installed commercial application
software on a system running a mass-market Microsoft o.s.? I always look
very carefully at the results of such an installation, and I always find
tons of drivers for devices I don't have, didn't say I had, and wouldn't
dream of installing. (I should note that almost all my experience is
with software distributed on floppies.)

Dan Strychalski
dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw