Re: Isolationism is history.
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> > ............... Microsoft
> > does tend to use gotos for error exits.
Nothing wrong with this. It is called "throwing an exception". C++ and
java have keywords "try", "catch", "throw" to make it official.
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows
> > CE.NET source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get
> > a flavor of it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a
> > University take a look at the source -- Microsoft is handing out
> > read-access grudgingly. Work within the system and you can
> > accomplish that goal.
>
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted"
> if you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software
> thereafter could be difficult.
This is the original basis for the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit.
Writing any software that is in any way similar thereafter could be
different.
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