From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,365c587e3030d8f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Win32Ada Date: 1998/11/18 Message-ID: <3653484B.4581F8B2@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 413288449 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <72as14$bh4$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> <01be0e3b$a980c340$5da65c8b@aptiva> <72ev6o$gn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <364BE12F.F38A285C@cts.com> <72inaf$8it$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <01be0ff2$30b31ea0$96a55c8b@aptiva> <72kno3$q7f$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <72pd90$f3e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <72pu4o$us2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news6.ispnews.com 911427034 206.103.35.37 (Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:10:34 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:10:34 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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