Re: Win32Ada

[dewarr@my-dejanews.com]

In article <72pd90$f3e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <72kno3$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.



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!

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