From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 17:14:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA30537B8F7 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23353; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:14:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000417181245.0463d770@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:14:02 -0600 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000417174932.00890630@mail85.pair.com> References: <4.2.2.20000417163757.03d33870@localhost> <3.0.6.32.20000417141142.008aee60@mail85.pair.com> <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3.0.6.32.20000417104107.0088ee50@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:49 PM 4/17/2000 , G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >At 16:40 17-04-2000 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > >Actually, Microsoft licensed from Symantec (for free -- at "gunpoint") > >a product which copies the innermost workings of Gibson's. They > >incorporated it into DoubleSpace and Scandisk. > >True, but Scandisk comes nowhere near to what SpinRite does. Scandisk only >fixes problems after they happen, SpinRite prevents them. Not true. Scandisk has, for a long time, had a mode in which it does a "deep scan" and refreshes the data on the disk. Gibson examined their code and discovered that they had incorporated some of his code VERBATIM! --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message