Ken Arromdee wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >>The kernel provides a public, documented, freely implementable interface >>of system calls. I don't know if you can replace it with something >>else, but you should be able to. > > Then any Windows program which uses undocumented Windows system calls (of > which there are plenty) is a derivative work of Windows and can't be > distributed without Microsoft's permission, at least until someone discovers > the system calls and implements them in Wine? Quite arguably yes. However, Microsoft is intelligent enough to know that going after people who develop applications for your platform is a bad idea. I suspect they would have grounds to do so if they wanted to. - Josh Triplett
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