[luau] Re: About the "anti-competitive" practices

[Warren Togami]

I am sorry, perhaps you misunderstood me.  I realize that NTFS is not the
anti-competitive part of this.  The part that angered me was that it takes a
considerable amount of time in order to modify the Compaq QuickRestore CD in
order to install Windows XP without wiping out Linux on other partitions,
when the Compaq engineers could have EASILY added a QuickRestore menu option
to "Delete first partition" instead of "Delete entire drive".

And do you realize that HP/Compaq is a large industry player and supporter
of Linux?

You also did not read my complaint about Sony correctly.  I said that it was
FAT32 which was fine, but the partition table was corrupted in such a way
that worked with Windows XP but not Linux.  That screams of suspiciousness
to me.

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajan Rishyakaran" <remaja1986 at yahoo.com>
To: <warren at togami.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:05 AM
Subject: About the "anti-competitive" practices


> You had mentioned that the inability to create
> additional partitions with the Rescue CD is an
> anti-competitive measure by either Microsoft or Compaq
> and Sony or all three. I think not. Most of Compaq's
> and Sony's customers are Windows using customers, and
> in effort to make reinstalling Windows easier, these
> hardware companies as well as many others had opted to
> automatically install Windows to be as if it was
> installed by the factory. The usages of NTFS instead
> of FAT32 is because Microsoft recommends NTFS more
> than FAT32. In Windows 2000, I notice noticible
> performance difference between FAT32 and NTFS. I'm
> currently using Windows XP on a HP Omnibook laptop
> which comes with NTFS, and I haven't tried FAT32 with
> Windows XP. So please try to understand that Compaq
> and Sony can't complicate things for most of their
> target customers just for a bunch of Linux fans.
>
> I'm using Linux (Mandrake Linux, moving to Gentoo
> Linux, but on a different machine. On this laptop, I'm
> using SuSE Linux mostly). Yet little inconvinience for
> Linux users and would be Linux users shouldn't be
> counted as an anti-competitive meassure. Trust me,
> Microsoft wouldn't dare to do any anti-competitive
> meassures, at least until it gets off the hook at the DOJ.
>