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
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