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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Win32Ada
Date: 1998/11/16
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In article <72kno3$q7f$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <01be0ff2$30b31ea0$96a55c8b@aptiva>,
>   "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net> wrote:
> > dewar@gnat.com schreef in artikel
> <72inaf$8it$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> > > available. Apparently, in what I consider to be a
> serious
> > > mistake, the government did not make the same
> requirement
> > > for the Win32 bindings. It would of course have been
> > > possible to generate clean room bindings free of
> Microsoft
> > > control.
> >
> > Is there any reason why such a binding could not be
> produced again,
> > using the latest API ?
>
> Of course there is no reason, it is simply a question of
> who has the knowledge, skill, time and resources to make
> this happen.
>

Doesn't the "clean room" method actually require someone who has *no*
knowledge of the API (from Microsoft-derived sources) to do the work? I'd
think finding such people who would volunteer their time for this effort
would be difficult. That means it would have to be bankrolled by some company
or university, who would surely be sued by Microsoft anyway...

The AJPO was probably our last, best hope for making this happen.

--
T.E.D.

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