Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 07:00 5/13/2004, Jeff Vian wrote:
>And they should trust a proprietory vendor?  ;-)
>Microcoft has lost several lawsuits because of *lifting* other peoples 
>work.  IIRC, one in particular was Drivespace (used in dos 5/6, and Win 
>95/98) which was lifted from DoubleSpace.

Minor correction: Microsoft introduced DoubleSpace in DOS, stolen from the 
third-party Stacker software. They lost a $120M lawsuit to Stacker if I 
recall correctly, but managed to bankrupt the company in the process.


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