Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

On 2026-07-01 3:41 p.m., chrisv wrote:
> 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.

While Microsoft is not obligated to allow for software not made by the 
company to work with it, it seems very counterproductive for them to 
lock their adversaries out. I don't know how this kind of behaviour can 
be defended.

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