Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery
Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
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On 2026-06-30, Jan Panteltje <[email protected]> wrote: > Leroy H <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Micro$oft is such a great OS that they've always needed sabotage >> and bribery to succeed: > > <https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/> > > GNU/Linux, in sharp contrast, blazes forever forward ahead with superior > quality. In my Amiga days I got hold of an Amiga port of Samba, which enabled me to access files on a Windows machine. Part of a software update for Windows 2000 was a patch which made Windows boxes send an invalid command to SMB boxes to which it was connecting, and checking the response. If it wasn't exactly what a Windows box would return, it would refuse to connect. It took the Amiga gurus only two or three days to come up with a fix for that one. > I have read that these days Microsoft has shares in hardware > companies and making ever more bloated software forces people > to buy ever more powerful hardware... > > All about dollars.. Just the other day a friend threw out a perfectly functioning HP LaserJet printer because Windows declared it to be too old. > Who needs Microsoft? I do not need it, and with US listening > in / having a say in it, it is probably a security risk. Yup. Ditto for Apple, Google... To paraphrase Ted Nelson in _Computer Lib_: Microsoft is not a necessary evil. Microsoft is not necessary. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | No artificial \ / <[email protected]> | intelligence was X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | used in the creation / \ if you read it the right way. | of this post.