On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:53:21 + (UTC), Vincent Fritters wrote:
On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl doug_ment...@linuxmail.org wrote:
They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked
over by MS ..
And they are not the only ones.
Even IBM got burned while playing nice
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:43:09 + (UTC), Vincent Fritters wrote:
On 2009-03-03, Hadron hadronqu...@gmail.com wrote:
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
Wrong. Presentation manager was indeed in OS/2 2.x And Warp.
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:30:39 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:53:21 + (UTC), Vincent Fritters wrote:
On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl doug_ment...@linuxmail.org wrote:
They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked
over by MS ..
And they are
amicus_curious wrote:
Well, consider the facts of the Stac case. Stac bought a patent for
the compression method that they used and Microsoft bought a similar
patent for the one that they implemented in DOS themselves. For
convenience to their customers, they made their feature able to read
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
On 2009-03-03, amicus_curious a...@sti.net wrote:
Stick with the bologna and goetta, Vince, you are likely to be better at
that than you are at remembering the chronological order of things.
Microsoft had their falling out with IBM over
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
On 2009-03-03, Hadron hadronqu...@gmail.com wrote:
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
Wrong. Presentation manager was indeed in OS/2 2.x And Warp.
http://www.firstandsecond.com/store/books/info/bookinfo.asp?txtSearch=237799
2.x
Hadron wrote:
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
On 2009-03-03, Hadron hadronqu...@gmail.com wrote:
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
Wrong. Presentation manager was indeed in OS/2 2.x And Warp.
On 2009-03-03, amicus_curious a...@sti.net wrote:
Stick with the bologna and goetta, Vince, you are likely to be better at
that than you are at remembering the chronological order of things.
Microsoft had their falling out with IBM over Windows 3.0, not NT.
Microsoft were actively
On 2009-03-03, Hadron hadronqu...@gmail.com wrote:
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid writes:
Wrong. Presentation manager was indeed in OS/2 2.x And Warp.
http://www.firstandsecond.com/store/books/info/bookinfo.asp?txtSearch=237799
2.x had the workplace shell, although technically it
amicus_curious wrote:
Well, consider the facts of the Stac case ..
Microsoft wanted STAC to give away STACKER, and when they wouldn't
comply went ahead and included it in DOS 6.0 anyway renaming it
DoubleSpace. When called on it by Stac went to a third party VertiSoft
and released
On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl doug_ment...@linuxmail.org wrote:
They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked
over by MS ..
And they are not the only ones.
Even IBM got burned while playing nice with Microsoft.
While Microsoft was developing OS/2 with IBM, they
were
Doug Mentohl doug_ment...@linuxmail.org wrote in message
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amicus_curious wrote:
Well, consider the facts of the Stac case ..
Microsoft wanted STAC to give away STACKER, and when they wouldn't comply
went ahead and included it in DOS 6.0 anyway renaming
Vincent Fritters vi...@nowhere.invalid wrote in message
news:gohdfh$aa...@news.albasani.net...
On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl doug_ment...@linuxmail.org wrote:
They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked
over by MS ..
And they are not the only ones.
Even IBM got
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