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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
Subject: Re: Win32Ada
Date: 1998/11/18
Date: 1998-11-18T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3653484B.4581F8B2@easystreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 72pu4o$us2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 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!
> 

IBM put Win32 into OS/2 under a joint licensing deal with MS.
MS responded with Win32 1.1, which was not compatible with what 
IBM had in OS/2.  IBM then gave up on trying to keep up with MS's 
product evolution.  If it was too much for them, it may be hard 
to find a crew that's going to do it gratis for Ada.

Al




  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-11-18  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-11  0:00 Win32Ada BARDIN Marc
1998-11-11  0:00 ` Win32Ada Henri
1998-11-12  0:00 ` Win32Ada Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-12  0:00   ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-12  0:00     ` Win32Ada Dave Wood
1998-11-13  0:00       ` Win32Ada Dale Stanbrough
1998-11-14  0:00       ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-15  0:00         ` Win32Ada Dave Wood
1998-11-15  0:00           ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-14  0:00       ` Win32Ada dewar
1998-11-14  0:00         ` Win32Ada Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-14  0:00           ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-16  0:00             ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-16  0:00               ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-16  0:00                 ` Win32Ada Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-17  0:00                   ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-17  0:00                     ` Win32Ada Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-17  0:00                 ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-18  0:00                 ` Al Christians [this message]
1998-11-16  0:00         ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-16  0:00           ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-17  0:00             ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-20  0:00           ` Win32Ada Richard Kenner
1998-11-19  0:00             ` Win32Ada Al Christians
1998-11-20  0:00               ` Win32Ada Richard Kenner
1998-11-20  0:00               ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-20  0:00                 ` Software License Blather Al Christians
1998-11-21  0:00                   ` dewar
1998-11-21  0:00                 ` Win32Ada Richard Kenner
1998-11-23  0:00                   ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-23  0:00                     ` Win32Ada Richard Kenner
1998-11-20  0:00             ` Win32Ada dennison
1998-11-14  0:00       ` Win32Ada dewar
1998-11-14  0:00         ` Win32Ada Tom Moran
1998-11-15  0:00         ` Win32Ada Dave Wood
1998-11-15  0:00           ` Win32Ada dewarr
1998-11-15  0:00             ` Win32Ada Andi Kleen
1998-11-15  0:00               ` Win32Ada Al Christians
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-17  4:34 win32ada Aaron W. Myers
2003-07-17  8:51 ` win32ada Jerry van Dijk
2003-07-18  3:21 ` win32ada Steve
1996-03-21  0:00 Win32Ada Pascal OBRY
1996-03-21  0:00 ` Win32Ada Robert F. Estes
1996-03-28  0:00   ` Win32Ada Carl J R Johansson
1996-03-28  0:00     ` Win32Ada Ted Dennison
     [not found]       ` <4jf4uhINNsad@RA.DEPT.CS.YALE.EDU>
1996-03-29  0:00         ` Win32Ada Ted Dennison
1996-03-29  0:00   ` Win32Ada lrharris
1996-03-22  0:00 ` Win32Ada Wiljan Derks
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