Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:01:56 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: [SNIPPED] > > Well, then it seems to me that what you are REALLY saying is that it is > not Windows that will be dominant so much as it is the Windows API and > that if Microsoft were forced to release that API in excruciating detail, > Linux could outwindow windows. Let Microsoft keep the Windows code but
No sane person would ever use the Windows calling convention. [SNIPPED]
> > I think this, in a nutshell, is what the Caldera lawsuit is all about. > They do not want the Windows code, they want the API so they can buld a > DIFFERENT platform that will be capable of allowing a user to drop an > application into Linux or some other OS and allow it to run.
I think you are correct.
> Microsoft is now going to hide behind NT because it is explicitly exempted > from the consent decree. They will be forced to release the Windows API > at about the time they announce that they are abandoning it.
I think you are correct here too.
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