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From: mg@asp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart)
Subject: Re: Ada Foundation Classes
Date: 1996/08/06
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: Dale Pontius wrote:
: > 
: > In article <31FE15A6.53A@comm.hq.af.mil>,
: >         Chad Bremmon <chad.bremmon@comm.hq.af.mil> writes:
: > The name Ada Foundation Class kind of smacks of Microsoft
: > Foundation Class. There are a couple of points about this...

: I agree that a different name would be more
: appropriate.  We are providing a binding to
: MFC as part of the ObjectAda for Windows
: product line, under the name Ada Foundation
: Classes.  The notion of "Foundation Classes"
: is pretty tightly tied to Windows and MFC in 
: particular, and especially bring to mind C++.

Netscape doesn't seem to mind copying a name, they have recently
announced Netscape Internet Foundation Classes , see
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/one/white_paper.html

- Mitch Gart