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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 13:44:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan09.134405.24683@kvamdata.no>
- References: <1993Jan8.002640.5554@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> <1993Jan8.031151.9438@cs.brown.edu> <19930108144414.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
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- In article <19930108144414.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
- >
- > [stuff deleted] But, unless
- > IBM is restricted by M$ on providing the driver, they should come
- > across with the code. And if they are restricted by an M$ copyright,
- > they should say so.
- >
- > [more stuff deleted]
- >
- > Gene Mangum
- > Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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- According to Bob, IBM did say that the source code was owned by Microsoft:
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- In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
- > To my amazement and consternation I was told that the original contact
- > that had made the promise was retired and wrong. In fact the source
- > code was owned by Microsoft and could not be released to me by IBM.
-
- The *very* stupid part on IBM, was not telling Bob this until it was too
- late.
-
- Eirik
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