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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
| Subject | Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery |
| References | <18bde160c06384ae$14050$182442$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1120n7m$169pk$1@dont-email.me> |
| Message-ID | <teU0S.5$kfzb.2@fx35.iad> (permalink) |
| Date | 2026-06-30 18:51 +0000 |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2026-06-30, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
> Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net>wrote:
>
>> Micro$oft is such a great OS that they've always needed sabotage
>> and bribery to succeed:
>
> <https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/>
>
> GNU/Linux, in sharp contrast, blazes forever forward ahead with superior
> quality.
In my Amiga days I got hold of an Amiga port of Samba, which
enabled me to access files on a Windows machine. Part of a
software update for Windows 2000 was a patch which made Windows
boxes send an invalid command to SMB boxes to which it was
connecting, and checking the response. If it wasn't exactly
what a Windows box would return, it would refuse to connect.
It took the Amiga gurus only two or three days to come up
with a fix for that one.
> I have read that these days Microsoft has shares in hardware
> companies and making ever more bloated software forces people
> to buy ever more powerful hardware...
>
> All about dollars..
Just the other day a friend threw out a perfectly functioning
HP LaserJet printer because Windows declared it to be too old.
> Who needs Microsoft? I do not need it, and with US listening
> in / having a say in it, it is probably a security risk.
Yup. Ditto for Apple, Google...
To paraphrase Ted Nelson in _Computer Lib_:
Microsoft is not a necessary evil.
Microsoft is not necessary.
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Micro$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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