Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:40:25 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "J McKitrick" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000417163757.03d33870@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000417141142.008aee60@mail85.pair.com> References: <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3.0.6.32.20000417104107.0088ee50@mail85.pair.com>
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At 01:11 PM 4/17/2000 , G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >I did not say anything about Netscape or Sun being the small guy. I was >simply offering an example of how MS methods stifle software productivity. >I certainly did not mean to imply that was the only example. Just my own >drop in the ocean. > >To balance my example, I should mention Steve Gibson, the author of >SpinRite. He is an example of a small guy who has been very successful. >Surprisingly, M$ never tried to create a competitive product. 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. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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