Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted?

[Jeff Vian]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> 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.
>
True,  I did not have all the details in ready reference ram (personal 
memory), but that was the issue I was referring to.  Thanks for the 
assistance.  ;-)