Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 560
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 00:02:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Saturday 08 March 2003
 Number  560
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Subjects for today
 
1  [os2genau] from the Register: US bar owner executes Dell laptop : Robert Traynor  (BobT)" <rtraynor at optusnet dot com dot au>
2  Re: [os2genau] from the Register: US bar owner executes Dell laptop : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
3  Re: [os2genau] from the Register: US bar owner executes Dell laptop : Gregory Hicks" <ghicks at ihug dot com dot au>

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Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:26:27 +1000
From:  "Robert Traynor  (BobT)" <rtraynor at optusnet dot com dot au>
Subject:  [os2genau] from the Register: US bar owner executes Dell laptop

US bar owner executes Dell laptop
By Lester Haines
Posted: 06/03/2003 at 12:15 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29617.html

A bar and restaurant owner from Lafayette,
Colorado was jailed earlier this week after
pumping four rounds into his Dell laptop, the
Knoxville News Sentinel reports.

George Doughty, 48, announced to patrons of his
Sportsman's Inn Bar and Restaurant that he
intended to execute the portable.

He then disappeared into his office, returning
after thirty minutes with said machine and
revolver.  Warning punters in the bar to cover
their ears, he let the Dell have it with four
rounds at close range. Doughty allegedly
celebrated this orgy of violence by hanging the
grisly remains over the bar like a hunting trophy.

What provoked the gangland-style execution remains
unclear, although it does give new meaning to the
phrase "percussive maintenance".

Doughty faces charges of felony menacing, reckless
endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons.
Whether his actions constitute a breach of
MS Windows XP licencing terms remains to be seen.

Regards,
Robert Traynor (BobT).
8 March 2003   9:25

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Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:39:27 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re: [os2genau] from the Register: US bar owner executes Dell laptop

On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:26:27 +1000, Robert Traynor  (BobT) wrote:

>
>What provoked the gangland-style execution remains
>unclear, although it does give new meaning to the
>phrase "percussive maintenance".
>
>Doughty faces charges of felony menacing, reckless
>endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons.
>Whether his actions constitute a breach of
>MS Windows XP licencing terms remains to be seen.
>

He should have been given a medal for daring to challenge the terms of the
licence!

I wonder if it was MS who laid the charges?

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldad at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:54:09 -0950 (CST)
From:  "Gregory Hicks" <ghicks at ihug dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re: [os2genau] from the Register: US bar owner executes Dell laptop

On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:26:27 +1000, Robert Traynor  (BobT) wrote:

>US bar owner executes Dell laptop
>By Lester Haines
>Posted: 06/03/2003 at 12:15 GMT
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29617.html
>
>A bar and restaurant owner from Lafayette,
>Colorado was jailed earlier this week after
>pumping four rounds into his Dell laptop, the
>Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
>
<snip>
>
>Doughty faces charges of felony menacing, reckless
>endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons.
>Whether his actions constitute a breach of
>MS Windows XP licencing terms remains to be seen.
>
No doubt some creative lawyer will find a twist in the license for this

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