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- From: ekl@kvamdata.no (Eirik Lygre)
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Organization: Kvam data as
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 13:39:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan09.133909.24583@kvamdata.no>
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocay
- References: <1993Jan08.102011.22100@kvamdata.no> <1993Jan8.140504.6677@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> <1993Jan8.185240.19628@orlith.bates.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan8.185240.19628@orlith.bates.edu> lmalloy@abacus.bates.edu (Laura G. Malloy) writes:
- >
- >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
- >
-
- It has been known for a rather long time that Microsoft own some code
- that relates to device drivers, and that it is not willing to release
- it. This has been used as one excuse for not delivering a device
- driver development kit -- negotiations of source code release has
- taken a long time.
-
- Eirik Lygre
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