Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:14:02 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000417181245.0463d770@localhost> 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>
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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
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