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From: Aidan Skinner <aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/02/06
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> what you are referring to when you talk about Microsoft
> technologies developed outside of Microsoft. Sure the original
> version of DOS was purchased, but even todays DOS (let alone

I believe IE was purchased from spyglass, as was one of the other
things their pushing heavily (media player?) IIRC...

OTOH this is so totally off-topic for cla it's not true... ;)

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