Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery
chrisv <[email protected]>
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Charlie Gibbs wrote: >In my Amiga days I got hold of an Amiga port of Samba, which >enabled me to access files on a Windows machine. Part of a >software update for Windows 2000 was a patch which made Windows >boxes send an invalid command to SMB boxes to which it was >connecting, and checking the response. If it wasn't exactly >what a Windows box would return, it would refuse to connect. A nice example of Microshaft's immoral "business tactics" that have been defended by Wintrolls, in here. >It took the Amiga gurus only two or three days to come up >with a fix for that one. Was that before or after Micro$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/ -- "unless it's illegal then the company hasn't done anything wrong." - trolling fsckwit "Exekiel"