Please note, that I am NOT saying that there was nothing wrong in the
compression. Merely that the disasters that prompted the public outcry
were due to SMARTDRV's problems, not the problems with the compression.
My numbers were all wrong on the Microsoft V Stac lawsuit.
Micorsoft and Stac had looked at each others code as part of alicensing
negotiation, that fell through.
Microsoft had to pay $120 million, and Stac had to pay $13.6 million.
But Microsoft also settled some claims out of court with a $39.9 million
dollar investment in Stac, and paid $43 million in royalties.
Yes, billg had a bad day. comparable to my losing $100
IBM's PC-DOS 6.10 had a similar bundle list to MS-DOS 6.00, but each
product from a different vendor than Microsoft's
On Fri, 10 May 2024, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
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