From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 15 15:46:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25201 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA25184 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA02739; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:42:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702152342.QAA02739@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:42:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dave@dogwood.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Feb 15, 97 11:43:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.