-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 8:31 PM 6/23/96, Alan Lewine wrote:
Maybe i'm confused, but oil change sounds like a mole that can burrow unbidden into user's disks. I don't think user installation is required,
It's a commercial product, offering a (putative) service to those who buy it. One "opts out" by not buying and installing it.
I thought Alan was implying that Oil Change might be licensed by other software vendors, and then supplied as a "service" without warnings. For instance, one might purchase the NiftyKeen Win95 graphics editor, and find in a footnote on page 58 of the manual that the product will automatically update itself unless the user explicitly refuses the Customer Convenience Package during installation. In any case, I don't think it's a bad idea to point out the potential problems -- some people just don't notice these things unless the implications are spelled out in at least as much detail as the glowing marketer fluff. regards, `=-`=-`=-`=- -='-='-='-=' Jennifer Mansfield-Jones http://www.rust.net/~strix/strix.html strix@rust.net PGP key ------^ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMc5xc0xVmNNM34OxAQH2DAQAxiAj+CR7okA5nLCI54GYoESNUKO1wX8D geD2L4UHtidJQ1dbSJmhRAggMGnHVpOH3JuPTDzSV45m+O1o8GXIuUYqGMzmiFhZ LrDiV7l/RTWxoFPVE8M3e6BiH6IMShe3ZHXPkP4q4w0RALJMSYK0YYq3EX3ji+1B 86tpWojLRzk= =9rDr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----