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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Win32Ada
Date: 1998/11/17
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In article <72pu4o$us2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <72pd90$f3e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > would be difficult. That means it would have to be
> bankrolled by some company
> > or university, who would surely be sued by Microsoft
> anyway...
>
> 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!

Actually, Microsoft originally wrote OS/2 under contract from IBM, until
version 1.3. Supposedly Micrsoft stopped after that on IBM's insistence, but
they still have a cross-licensing agreement in place (see
http://www.teamos2.org/info/history.html for more information )

But in any event, if ACT wants to try to produce a liberated Win32 binding, I
certainly don't want to be seen as discouraging.

--
T.E.D.

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