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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Why Can't Microsoft Write Protect Their Distribution Disks?
Message-ID: <175@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 17:35:46 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In light of the recent problems some people (well, one person) has had
with the Microsoft C V5.1 SETUP program, I decided to take no chances 
and write protect every disk in the V5.1 distribution before installing
it.  

But why am I doing it?  Microsoft is a big company -- I'm sure they can 
afford disk duplicators that write on write protected disks.  (Look at how 
IBM distributes software).  Or they can afford to put people to work putting 
write protect tabs on the disks.  It takes all of about five seconds to apply
a write protect tab to a disk, and even if Microsoft paid unskilled
laborers $10/hour to do this, it would cost less than 20 cents to 
write protect the V5.1 distribution.

Clayton E. Cramer