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Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

Date 2026-07-08 13:51 -0400
Subject Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
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From CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
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On 2026-07-01 3:41 p.m., chrisv wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> A nice example of Microshaft's immoral "business tactics" that have
> been defended by Wintrolls, in here.

While Microsoft is not obligated to allow for software not made by the 
company to work with it, it seems very counterproductive for them to 
lock their adversaries out. I don't know how this kind of behaviour can 
be defended.

< snip >

-- 
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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