Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:31:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, angussf@geoapps.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911121427100.60313-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911120610490.11475-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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Here's an example i remember from several months back. I am a newbie, so correct if/where i am wrong. Samba worked wonderfully as a file server alongside windows machines. M$ got scared, so they changed just enough in their file transfer specs to break samba. This was done for no other reason than to make samba incompatible as a file server with windows (NT?) machines. Eventually, however, the samba team caught on, and were able to adapt. It's funny, M$ had the tables turned on them recently. Their MS Messenger works with AOL Instant Messages as well. But AOL tried to change its specs to break M$'s new messenger product. M$ basically said 'this isn't fair, but change all you want, we'll adapt. And it's true. Eventually AOL will run out of reasonable tweaks to break Messenger. But it's funny that M$ complained so much about it. -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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