From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 15:42: 9 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 1917837BB65 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:42:07 -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 QAA22305; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:40:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000417163757.03d33870@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:40:25 -0600 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , "David Schwartz" , "J McKitrick" , From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000417141142.008aee60@mail85.pair.com> References: <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3.0.6.32.20000417104107.0088ee50@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:11 PM 4/17/2000 , G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >I did not say anything about Netscape or Sun being the small guy. I was >simply offering an example of how MS methods stifle software productivity. >I certainly did not mean to imply that was the only example. Just my own >drop in the ocean. > >To balance my example, I should mention Steve Gibson, the author of >SpinRite. He is an example of a small guy who has been very successful. >Surprisingly, M$ 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