Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery
CrudeSausage <[email protected]>
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On 2026-06-30 2:51 p.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-06-30, Jan Panteltje <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Leroy H <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Micro$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. Mac users are about to face the same issue when the Intel drivers for a lot of printers don't cross over to the Mx-only MacOS versions. I already checked mine, a Laserjet Pro M130nw, and it seems to already be using an AirPrint driver, ensuring that I won't need to throw it out. >> 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. Using Linux alone is certainly quite feasible nowadays, especially if you're not looking to change hardware every five to seven years the way you would with an Apple. -- CrudeSausage M4 MacBook Air