Re: Herbert, Herbert, wherefore art thou Herbert ?

From: hutch-- (hutch_at_movsd.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 28 Nov 2004 19:18:46 -0800

Funny enough Annie Dearest,

I was around when all of these things happened. DrvSpace became
DblSpace between dos 6.0 and 6.22 and after trying it on a number of
machines, it was crap technology in any case. Just buy a bigger disk
or two. I was using ESDI full heights at the time so disk space was
not a problem where crappy compression and laggy results were.
> _____
> Well, Mikro$loth always seemed ((( `\
> to use that approach. _ _`\ )
> (^ ) )
> Need I remind you about the ~-( )
> case of Stakker in the 1990s, _'((,,,)))
> when M$ blatantly STOLE the ,-' \_/ `\
> compression technology (and ( , |
> was later required by the `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
> courts to pay millions of \ / | |
> dollars in recompense and =()=: / ,' aa
> penalties to Stak Technologies)?
>
> Or need I remind you about the "warning" that was
> built into WinDoze 3.1x to falsely scare users, if
> WinDoze detected that it was running under anything
> other than M$'s own brand of DOS? Again, the courts
> found this to be a no-no, and ordered Mikro$loth
> to pay multi-millions of dollars to the owners of
> DR-DOS.

It did not help that at times, Windows ran like a bag of sh*t if it
was strapped onto much else where at least with the ms-dos memory
management, it worked fine ALL THE TIME.

> And these are just two examples. There are dozens,
> even hundreds, more.
>
> M$'s entire history shows a consistent philosophy of
> 'FUD it / steal it.'
>
> For you to ardently support Mikro$loth, and at the
> same time condemn Betov, seems rather disingenuous,
> Hutch.
>
> Shouldn't you, rather, admire Betov for USING EXACTLY
> THE SAME TACTICS THAT MADE GILL BATE$ SUCCESSFUL? Hehehe!

Still, I am pleased to see that you recognise that Betov is a slimy
old crook that pinches anything he likes while foulmouthing whoever he
can.

Regards,

hutch at movsd dot com