MS is piracy
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| reply to dave
Re: Well do you blame them
dave, you do have to admit, MS had brass balls to: 1) pretty much outright "steal" Stacker's runtime disk-compression products' features (*), 2) integrated it into MS-DOS, including a new API that would allow pre-loading the driver, and 3) turn around and sue Stacker, for "theft of trade secrets", for developing an updated version of their product to work with that new API.
(*) Not just features - MS's actual compression implementation infringed on Stacker's LZS (Lempel-Ziv Stacker) patent, IIRC.
There is pretty much nothing new under the sun coming from MS. Every single thing that they "innovated", that I am aware of, was "stolen" from someone else.
MS, the playground bully, got rich by stealing the lunch money from the naive children of rich parent, not by earning the money themselves - to make an analogy. |
