Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

chrisv <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
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Charlie Gibbs wrote:

>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.

A nice example of Microshaft's immoral "business tactics" that have
been defended by Wintrolls, in here.

>It took the Amiga gurus only two or three days to come up
>with a fix for that one.

Was that before or after Micro$oft was forced by anti-trust lawsuit to
provide  the documentation needed for implementation of all of the
workgroup server protocols?

https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/

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