Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:21:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net (mika ruohotie) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704211821.LAA13905@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704210819.LAA29137@shadows.aeon.net> from "mika ruohotie" at Apr 21, 97 11:19:20 am
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> > Unless you are talking about NT 3.51, you're wrong: it does not need > > a reboot, just an undocumented call into an undocumented DLL. Microsoft > > just likes to ask for reboots because their change flag doesn't have > > the necessary granularity to distinguish between "changes needing a > > reboot" and "simple changes" -- all they see are "changes". > > and information about that can be found from? Disassembling NT with Sourcer(tm) from V Communications, Inc.. > is that probably a new feature still on the level of "experimental" and > "not fully implemented"? or just there? It's what they use themselves, but won;tshare with you. Basically, it's an anticompetitive covert interface. I'm really surprised the FTC never does anything to Microsoft... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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