On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:38:50AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > 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. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if they did file some lawsuits along those lines at some point (against some developers they didn't like) - followed by selling a lot of licenses to corporations to protect them from such things. It'd be about normal... I mean, it's not like any of their customers don't believe MS are greedy evil monopolistic bastards already. The thing about being a monopolistic bastard is that you don't care about bad PR. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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