On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:34, Miark wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2003 01:20:06 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A "virtual" certainty. It's one of the reasons why they did not want
> > little puppet judge Kotar-Kelly to get ahold of the source code. In
> > addition to that you would als
Paul wrote:
After IBM took possesion of MS-DOS they had to sort out over 300 bugs in
4,000 lines of code changed name tp PC-DOS (that's why it's licensed to
MS & IBM).
Ye gods, that's not far from one line in ten! Even my programming isn't
that bad!
Sir Robin
--
"There are other rules, but you'
Hello,
Now that we have the record industry suing the parents of those who download
copyrighted songs, I shiver to think what the lawers at Micro$oft might come
up with.
Jim
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:34 am, Miark wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2003 01:20:06 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:26, Bob Read wrote:
> Miark wrote:
> (SNIP)
> > Speaking of which, what's the likelihood that M$ is using GPLed code in
> > their crap?
>
> 100%
>
> Bob
>
Original MS-DOS was based on Q-DOS which gates boutght for USD 50,000
after being approached by IBM who had been tu
On 29 Jul 2003 01:20:06 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A "virtual" certainty. It's one of the reasons why they did not want
> little puppet judge Kotar-Kelly to get ahold of the source code. In
> addition to that you would also be able to prove the existence of
> engineered sec
Miark wrote:
(SNIP)
Speaking of which, what's the likelihood that M$ is using GPLed code in
their crap?
100%
Bob
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On Monday 28 July 2003 09:55 pm, Miark wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2003 22:06:14 +0300, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There was also the disk-compression software,Stacker.
> >
> > Ms offered to allow the developer/company to add it to MS-DOS 6 without
> > paying them royalties. For some reason they re
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:59, Miark wrote:
> Central Point... that rings a bell from my Apple IIc days. Any connection?
>
> Miark
>
Central Point was the creator of PC Tools...mainly a Dos-win31X thing.
It's noteworthy that Xtree lives on these days in the Linux world.
http://www.xtreefanpage.o
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:55, Miark wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2003 22:06:14 +0300, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There was also the disk-compression software,Stacker.
> >
> > Ms offered to allow the developer/company to add it to MS-DOS 6 without
> > paying them royalties. For some reason they r
On 26 Jul 2003 22:06:14 +0300, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There was also the disk-compression software,Stacker.
>
> Ms offered to allow the developer/company to add it to MS-DOS 6 without
> paying them royalties. For some reason they refused, Ms put in
> double-space - & got sued. had to
Central Point... that rings a bell from my Apple IIc days. Any connection?
Miark
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:12, John Wilson wrote:
> >
> > XTree was one product I was thinking of, though if memory serves (which it
> > sometimes doesn't) that was the DOS product not the Windoze one. It was
>
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:12, John Wilson wrote:
> On July 26, 2003 03:42 am, _nasturtium wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would that product be XTree?
> >
> > Anyway,
> > http://www.symantec.com/corporate/
> > "Historical Highlights"
> > June 1994 Central Point Software Acquisition
On July 26, 2003 03:42 am, _nasturtium wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Would that product be XTree?
>
> Anyway,
> http://www.symantec.com/corporate/
> "Historical Highlights"
> June 1994 Central Point Software Acquisition
>
> I think Symantec owns Central Point Software ... unl
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:20 pm, John Wilson wrote:
> PS -- Anyone remember a little company called Central Point Software who
> made a better Winsucks Explorer than M$? And a better on-the-fly
> compression system? They sued M$, damned near went broke in the process,
> won and then M$ bought them o
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,466180,00.html
i don't think this has been posted yet, and i think it's definetly worth a
read. i came across this last night and just laughed. it's pretty funny
that the company that's working to stop piracy of their operating systems
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