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On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/16/2016 11:00 AM, William Ray Wing wrote:
>> It was known at the time. It was certainly known by the companies
>> that were ripped off, but they were typically small to really small
>> and couldn=E2=80=99t get traction for their stories in a press that was =
in
>> thrall to Microsoft.  It was pretty much only mentioned by contrarian
>> writers like Cringely, and for the most part was lost in the noise
>> over the browser war.
>
> Stac, the company who Microsoft ripped off to make DoubleSpace, did
> successfully sue MS and won (fairly big time).  MS ended up paying them
> a fair sum of money in damages.  But it was too late by then. Stac's
> original product, and MS DoubleSpace, was no longer really in demand  as
> hard drive prices fell and speeds increased.

Not to mention the massive MASSIVE risks of doublespacing your drive -
like total data loss. Even after it was made more reliable, the
reputation was shot. Nobody I spoke to would ever trust that kind of
drive-level compression.

ChrisA