Forget RMS, fly Dr.NU?EZ up from Peru!

Dennis Kibbe plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 7 May 2002 06:17:50 -0700


On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:58:41AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 06. May, 2002 schw?tzte George Toft so:
> 
> > I gues smost people don't remember the outright theft (not a fully-
> > owned subsidiary) by Microsoft of the Stac Electronics Stacker disk
> > compression code.  Stqac sued, MSFT lost.  They had to pull if from
> > distribution.  DOS 6.22 used the MSFT version - DOS 6.0 and 6.2 had
> > the Stac code.
> >
> > This was almost 10 years ago.
> 
> That was before I did computers.
> 
> http://www.vaxxine.com/lawyers/articles/stac.html
> http://www.base.com/software-patents/articles/stac.html
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

I remember STAC well, it allowed me to double the space on my 20mb harddrive!

Dennis