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- From: lmalloy@abacus.bates.edu (Laura G. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Organization: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:52:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.140504.6677@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
- >Eirik Lygre (ekl@kvamdata.no) wrote:
- >: I realize that Bob is pissed off -- I would, too. One thing, though, is that
- >: the driver he needs is owned and copyrighted by Microsoft. Perhaps he could
- >: talk to them, and have them release it. That way, he could (perhaps) get
- >: his investment back. Given that Microsoft has a much better track record
- >: with developer support, they would probably help him.
- >
- >You must be joking! Microsoft (and IBM) see OS/2 to be direct competition
- >with Windows and NT and they have been doing there best to hinder OS/2
- >(or at least to do nothing that could be seen to promote it) - i.e.
- >remove OS/2 support from MSC, terminate OS/2 SDK, generally badmouth OS/2
- >at all opportunities, choose not to producve OS/2 v2 versions of their
- >apps, limit OS/2 support in NT to character based. From a business
- >point of view it is just not in MS's interest to allow any OS/2 orientated
- >code that they have rights to out.
- >
- >Of course this goes both ways - IBM did their best to make things difficult
- >for MS after the break up by pointing out all the IBM patents that MS
- >of someone else's battle.
- >
-
- While it's naive of me to think that MS might permit an OS/2 developer
- to use its code, I would have thought that IBM, having been an OS/2
- partner with MS for some time, would have rights to code developed at
- least during the time of their joint work together or, depending upon
- agreements, even after (it's not as if MS would really *need* code to an
- OS/2 2.x driver, right?). Doesn't IBM have any real say in this at all?
-
- Joe Malloy
- German Department / Hamilton College / Clinton, New York
-
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- >david shepherd: des@inmos.co.uk tel: 0454-616616 x 625
- > inmos ltd, 1000 aztec west, almondsbury, bristol, bs12 4sq
- > New Year Resolution for 1993: Start using capital letters.
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