Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:42:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dave@dogwood.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702152342.QAA02739@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970215234046.7912B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Feb 15, 97 11:43:38 pm
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> > I'm betting you won't be able to get away with distributing the > > sources, no matter how much you improve it, though there is nothing > > that actually says you can't (most likely, they will redefine > > "significant", as necessary, to prevent you from doing so). > > Well, could there be any more significat change (other than completele > and utterly changing it to something another) than chaning it to work in > another windowing environment? I'm betting (above) that Microsoft would deem that "not significant", since it would prevent you from doing something they'd prefer you don't do (make their give-away code run on a platform you don't have to buy from them: the point of "give-away" code is to encourage use of their platforms). Also, it's "not significant" because it's a port to a platform which *should* already support the Microsoft interfaces, because by definition, Microsoft interfaces lead the industry and should be implemented on all platforms by you programmers from the unwashed masses. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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