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Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 1 month ago

How I discovered that Bill Gates monopolized ACPI in order to break Linux

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How I discovered that Bill Gates monopolized ACPI in order to break Linux

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Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 1 month ago
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    19•1 month ago

    I remember they once tried some similar shit with the Kerberos protocol, sneaking a patented feature in there so they could then seize the whole thing in the name of Active Directory, but I think they were forced to back down(?)

    I’m actually having difficulty finding details on it now because they’ve done a solid job drowning the story out from the search results…

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      11•1 month ago

      Licenses, not patents. Same effect though. Classic embrace, extend, extinguish.

      https://lowendmac.com/musings/kerberos.html

      https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/kerberos-pacs-and-microsofts-dirty-tricks

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