Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com>]

David wrote:
>On a Wintel system it is nigh-on impossible to know what was
>installed with any application.

My suspicion is that this is anti-piracy design.  If you've got an
all-in-one-folder design you can (usually) copy that application
anywhere you like; compare this to the little-bits-everywhere
MS approach.  How do you take, say, an MS Works preload and move
it to another machine?  Basically you don't, unless you don't mind
spending a few weeks tracking down and exporting all necessary
registry entries, running DLL dependency analyzers and so on.

There's nothing to prevent Windows programmers from using the
all-in-one-folder approach, but several things to discourage
them.