<story><title>Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops</title><url>https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greiskul</author><text>We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way.&lt;p&gt;And before someone says that &amp;quot;free market is always good and government is bad&amp;quot;, the optimum free market strategy if there is no government is to hire hitmen to assassinate the executives of competidor companies. A real competitive free market will always require the government to prohibit companies from forming artificial mottes around their monopolies.</text></item><item><author>sonicanatidae</author><text>This tracks for Microsoft. The very same company that told Compaq that if they sold any PCs with OS&amp;#x2F;2 Warp, they would never sell another one with Windows.&lt;p&gt;Humans are why we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things. OS&amp;#x2F;2 Warp was a great OS.</text></item><item><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>This brought to mind the AARD &amp;quot;crash&amp;quot; which Microsoft used to basically destroy competition from DR-DOS back in the day.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case. This XOR-encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated machine code used a variety of undocumented DOS structures and functions to perform its work.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;AARD_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;AARD_code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;windows&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;aard&amp;#x2F;drdos&amp;#x2F;index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;windows&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;aard&amp;#x2F;drd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36042213&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36042213&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&amp;gt; And before someone says that &amp;quot;free market is always good and government is bad&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never really understood that dichotomy myself.  The free market IS good, that is for sure.  But it won&amp;#x27;t exist unless the gov&amp;#x27;t uses its power to create it.  Companies have to be kept small enough that there will always be a bunch of choices.  And that won&amp;#x27;t happen by itself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops</title><url>https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greiskul</author><text>We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way.&lt;p&gt;And before someone says that &amp;quot;free market is always good and government is bad&amp;quot;, the optimum free market strategy if there is no government is to hire hitmen to assassinate the executives of competidor companies. A real competitive free market will always require the government to prohibit companies from forming artificial mottes around their monopolies.</text></item><item><author>sonicanatidae</author><text>This tracks for Microsoft. The very same company that told Compaq that if they sold any PCs with OS&amp;#x2F;2 Warp, they would never sell another one with Windows.&lt;p&gt;Humans are why we can&amp;#x27;t have nice things. OS&amp;#x2F;2 Warp was a great OS.</text></item><item><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>This brought to mind the AARD &amp;quot;crash&amp;quot; which Microsoft used to basically destroy competition from DR-DOS back in the day.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case. This XOR-encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated machine code used a variety of undocumented DOS structures and functions to perform its work.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;AARD_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;AARD_code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;windows&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;aard&amp;#x2F;drdos&amp;#x2F;index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;windows&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;aard&amp;#x2F;drd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36042213&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36042213&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SAI_Peregrinus</author><text>The optimal free market with no government is for corporations (collections of people) to use violent force to enforce their goals. A sufficiently powerful corporation is indistinguishable from a government.</text></comment>