Certainly they were justified, and I had a workable plan for dual booting the machines in such a way that they weren't ruined (our whole operation ran on Windows for Workgroups with UNIX back end). I'm real easy and not at all a control freak, but I have reasons for doing things. This one programmer was just a sloppy fat asshole and he lorded it over the others. His ass got REAMED for his stunt, which was fun.