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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Win32Ada
Date: 1998/11/17
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In article <72qra5$p24$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
> In article <1998Nov16.165814.1@eisner>,
>   Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
>> In article <72pu4o$us2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
>>
>> > Please don't make such allegations without some basis
> in
>> > reality. The entire Win32 environment has been cloned,
> e.g.
>> > in the context of OS/2, and Microsoft is not in the
>> > business of suing people who do this!
>>
>> Didn't IBM have certain legal rights in this area when
> they split
>> with Microsoft in the development effort ?  Both market
> "DOS".
> 
> 
> What has that got to do with the OS/2 Win32 bindings?

At the time of the split, IBM may have gotten some rights to
Windows bindings.  One would have to see the contract to be sure,
and one would have to engage in endless newsgroup wrangling to
still not settle whether that was legally significant.

Larry Kilgallen