On 27 Jan 2012 at 19:52, Geoffrey Reed wrote:
It annoys me that the devs of the original unit would
purposely damage
someone's programmer, I could see making the software not work, but
not to purposely brick the hardware.
It reminds me of an 80's software publishers gambit--go and clobber
the hard disk if a pirate copy is discovered on floppy.
Can't remember who it was or the details, but I remember that things
turned out badly for them.
--Chuck