On (14 Jan 97) Kurt Wismer wrote to Peter Calder...
 -=> Mocking Peter to Rick <=-
 KW>   (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 PC> I believe there is. It was an in-between version. After
 PC> Micro$oft had their butts whipped in court over the
 PC> DoubleSpace thing, they removed it from 6.2 and released
 PC> 6.21. After 6.21, they added it again under the name
 PC> DriveSpace and called it 6.22.
 PC> Didn't Micro$oft have to actually *buy* the company suing
 PC> them to get out of it or something?
 KW> to the best of my knowledge, no... they hacked the code further so
 KW> that it couldn't be considered a breach of copywrite anymore...
 KW> stacker is
 KW> still in business as far as i know (microsoft did file countersuite
 KW> for the use of proprietary information though - stacker used
 KW> undocumented
 KW> commands)
Thats the frist time I'm have heard that.  All stacker is a 
BLOCK Device driver for the hard disk.... and the information to 
write that code is in the public domain.
Gordon
... Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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