Microsoft, Defragmenter and German Intolerance:
Quote from Sunbelt News:
"Microsoft has caved in to German government demands that it find
a way to remove the defragmenter built into Win2K because Craig
Jensen, the CEO of Executive Software, which built the defragger,
is a Scientologist. For what it's worth, Jensen is known to run
his company along L Ron Hubbard's guidelines.
"The Germans say they're afraid that Executive Software built some
sort of subversive code into Win2K that would cause undefined
"security problems," according to initial reports out of Berlin
by way of Reuters. To placate the Germans Microsoft has posted,
in German, a set of tricky instructions on how to remove the
defragger... <snip>
"Executive Software blasted back full barrel, stopping short of
invoking Germany's Nazi past. "The stench of religious intolerance
is high among government officials in Germany, Jensen said. <snip>
Jensen noted that German officials have also boycotted movies
starring actors who are Scientologists - prominent among them John
Travolta and Tom Cruise. He claimed, "American companies now face
the possibility of being blacklisted and their products boycotted
if the Germans decide they don't like the religion of their CEOs...
next it will be American cars, books, hardware, textiles, foodstuffs."
"Jensen claims, ironically, that removing the defragger could harm
Win2K's overall security. He didn't explain how, and Microsoft has
been mum on the issue. Jensen also tried to make a distinction
between the German people and government officials. The people, he
said, have been buying Executive's offerings at a record pace".
[end quote]
In the mean time, Diskeeper version 6.0 has come out with a bunch
of new features that cement its market leader position. My comment
on the above is that Microsoft thoroughly reviews *all* code that
goes into the OS, and already declared the defragger code to be
completely clean. You can draw your own conclusions about the rest ;-)
The new V6.0 at:
sunbelt-software.com
" (end of quote)
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