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Lord Raven (umul...@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
: In <3sler4$9...@lynx.unm.edu> deh...@mirac.unm.edu (Dan Ehrig) writes:
: >Ah.  I see confusion on your part.  IBM is willing to provide Win'95 
: >support.  MS will not allow them to do so without a lawsuit.

: I belive that IBM has the right: they were involved in the original 
: Windows, and have some rights to the code. (Hence win31 support in os/2)
: I may be wrong, but I belive that they still have some rights to the 
: code, they just decided not to support win95. Why? Who knows. However, it 
: may have something to do with the fact that big blue took over lotus :)

IBM has the complete right to use the Win API until the end of the time.
Their rights to the Windows source code expired in Sept. of 92? (maybe 93,
I forget).  If IBM wanted to clone the Win32 API, they could.  In fact,
the Developers Extensions for OS/2 is actually just a bunch of the most
commonly used APIs from Win32 made native to OS/2, making porting simpler.
They could do the whole set if they wanted to, but they want native OS/2
software, not an OS that people use to run Windows (as is too often
the case now).

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