iOpener

I think that for every one iOpener sold to a hacker, at least 100 are sold to the general public for its intended use. Look at all the free publicity they are getting out of this. How many more are they going to sell because their product is now mentioned all over the media? I feel any "loss" suffered because a hacker buys one will be more than compensated for in increased sales. Just my $.02 worth. Bill whdawson(a)mlynk.com -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Wilson -> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 6:11 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: iOpener -> -> -> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:55:25PM -0500, Megan wrote: -> > I heard last night that Netpliance is making modifications so -> that people -> > can no longer do this... they are apparently losing a LOT of -> money selling -> > the machines, having expected to recoup it in the service charges... -> -> There's some mention of this on www.i-opener-linux.net, they -> seem to think -> it's an empty threat, since Netpliance has *also* set up a place-holder -> "developer's corner" page (at http://www.netpliance.com/devcorner) where -> they say how tickled they are by the whole open-source concept -> and they want -> to sell machines to hackers. -> -> John Wilson -> D Bit ->