On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/16/2016 11:00 AM, William Ray Wing wrote: >> It was known at the time. It was certainly known by the companies >> that were ripped off, but they were typically small to really small >> and couldn’t get traction for their stories in a press that was in >> thrall to Microsoft. It was pretty much only mentioned by contrarian >> writers like Cringely, and for the most part was lost in the noise >> over the browser war. > > Stac, the company who Microsoft ripped off to make DoubleSpace, did > successfully sue MS and won (fairly big time). MS ended up paying them > a fair sum of money in damages. But it was too late by then. Stac's > original product, and MS DoubleSpace, was no longer really in demand as > hard drive prices fell and speeds increased.
Not to mention the massive MASSIVE risks of doublespacing your drive - like total data loss. Even after it was made more reliable, the reputation was shot. Nobody I spoke to would ever trust that kind of drive-level compression. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
