#FIGHT BACK!
10-Mar-95 23:11:57
Sb: #188324-#FIGHT BACK!
Fm: Alex Baker 75606,563
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
As for proof of undocumented calls, I suggest you educate yourself on the
MS versus Stac court battle. Stac looked into the way that Microsoft
implemented their disk comression utility. They found a preloader that
loaded the compression utility prior to the loading of Dos. They then
used the hooks to enable the preloading of their software. Along the way
they found that Microsoft has used their technology to compress their
disks.
So they sued Microsoft and won, and Microsoft counter sued them, and won.
(On the order of 10% if the judgement against Stac, but still crowed about
their "victory" in the trade papers, not mentioning their larger loss to
Stac.)
Or do you also need "proof" that Microsoft got caught stealing code?