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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> it was exactly the scenario described
>
> A company had developed a means of impo=roving the Fat file system (IIRC by
> using a pseudo file system on top to eliminate the wasted space caused by
> incomplete blocks & the end of files)
>
> Microsoft engaged in negotiations to include the technique in MSDOS
> the pulled out at the last minute (after obtaining all the technical
> details) & introduced their own version which operated almost identically.
>
> heck PCDos was initially written by a 3rd party who was ripped of by
> Microsoft.
>
> Microsoft are the goto example fro the three 'E' approach to development.
>
> Embrace
> Extend
> Extinguish

Did people know this back then or it just surfaced years later? I
suppose that at the beginning MS was more "vulnerable" than it is
today.

-- 
Bernardo Sulzbach