On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > it was exactly the scenario described > > A company had developed a means of impo=roving the Fat file system (IIRC by > using a pseudo file system on top to eliminate the wasted space caused by > incomplete blocks & the end of files) > > Microsoft engaged in negotiations to include the technique in MSDOS > the pulled out at the last minute (after obtaining all the technical > details) & introduced their own version which operated almost identically. > > heck PCDos was initially written by a 3rd party who was ripped of by > Microsoft. > > Microsoft are the goto example fro the three 'E' approach to development. > > Embrace > Extend > Extinguish
Did people know this back then or it just surfaced years later? I suppose that at the beginning MS was more "vulnerable" than it is today. -- Bernardo Sulzbach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
