Re: [COMP] M$ legal dept strikes again, how were they gonna get hurt by this?

  • From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:57:38 -0500

Rookie499@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Well they made him take all his bootdisks off the site...this is a bunch of
> sh**. I didn't see anything wrong with him offering customized
> bootdisks....they were alot better than the standard ones made by windows add
> remove programs>start up disk page OR the ones that can be made during setup.

I think that's half of it right there-- this is just another method they use to
stomp out competition.


> This used to be a convienient place to go get win95a or b and dos 6.22 boot
> disks with cd rom support...
> now I'm gonna have to learn the dos syntax and make em myself. I know I have
> to have mscdex and enter a line in config.sys but I never learned cause I
> could get em anytime from that site.
> This really sucks- on his page there is an snail mail addy for the person at
> M$ to complain to.

Sweet. :)  What page is this though?

John



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