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Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

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On 2026-06-30 2:51 p.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2026-06-30, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Micro$oft is such a great OS that they've always needed sabotage
>>> and bribery to succeed:
>>
>> <https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/>
>>
>> GNU/Linux, in sharp contrast, blazes forever forward ahead with superior
>> quality.
> 
> 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.
> It took the Amiga gurus only two or three days to come up
> with a fix for that one.
> 
>> I have read that these days Microsoft has shares in hardware
>> companies and making ever more bloated software forces people
>> to buy ever more powerful hardware...
>>
>> All about dollars..
> 
> Just the other day a friend threw out a perfectly functioning
> HP LaserJet printer because Windows declared it to be too old.

Mac users are about to face the same issue when the Intel drivers for a 
lot of printers don't cross over to the Mx-only MacOS versions. I 
already checked mine, a Laserjet Pro M130nw, and it seems to already be 
using an AirPrint driver, ensuring that I won't need to throw it out.

>> Who needs Microsoft? I do not need it, and with US listening
>> in / having a say in it, it is probably a security risk.
> 
> Yup.  Ditto for Apple, Google...
> 
> To paraphrase Ted Nelson in _Computer Lib_:
> 
>      Microsoft is not a necessary evil.
>      Microsoft is not necessary.

Using Linux alone is certainly quite feasible nowadays, especially if 
you're not looking to change hardware every five to seven years the way 
you would with an Apple.

-- 
CrudeSausage
M4 MacBook Air

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Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-06-30 14:13 +0000
  Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-06-30 15:26 +0000
    Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-30 18:51 +0000
      Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2026-07-01 14:41 -0500
        Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-07-08 13:51 -0400
      Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-07-08 13:49 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-30 21:52 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-30 23:16 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-07-01 00:03 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-01 01:48 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-01 04:54 +0000
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-01 04:23 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-01 17:17 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-01 20:22 +0100
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-01 12:00 +0200
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 07:53 -0700
            Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-01 08:40 +0100
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery (WSL) "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 23:39 +0800
          Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery InterLinked <usenet@phreaknet.org> - 2026-07-07 19:20 -0400
            Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-07-07 23:53 +0000
    Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-30 23:07 +0000
      Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-07-01 05:47 +0000
        Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-01 17:26 +0000
          Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-07-02 06:23 +0000
            Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-03 03:02 -0400
              Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-07-03 08:41 +0000

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