From: adm!ovation!hipmac1.pica.army.mil!user@nyu.edu (Steve Wall)
Subject: Re: Microsoft targets missile at Ada9X
Date: 18 Jun 93 13:26:19 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <smwall-180693092445@hipmac1.pica.army.mil> (raw)
In article <SRCTRAN.93Jun14141508@world.std.com>, srctran@world.std.com
(Gregory Aharonian) wrote:
>
>
> A recent announcement from Microsoft, while having nothing to do with
> Ada, will go a long way towards making the efforts of guys like Mike
> Feldman and the GNU Ada project irrelevant.
>
> In the June 14, 1993 issue of Computerworld, page 48, there is a story
> announcing that Microsoft will be donating the source code (4 million lines
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> of C++ code) to universities and research institutions around the country,
> similar to licensing of Unix by ATT in the 1970's and 1980's.
>
Source code to what? Windows? DOS? Windows Solitaire? :-)
Steve Wall
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