🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan8.140504.6677@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
>Eirik Lygre (ekl@kvamdata.no) wrote:
>: I realize that Bob is pissed off -- I would, too. One thing, though, is that
>: the driver he needs is owned and copyrighted by Microsoft. Perhaps he could
>: talk to them, and have them release it. That way, he could (perhaps) get
>: his investment back. Given that Microsoft has a much better track record
>: with developer support, they would probably help him.
>
>You must be joking! Microsoft (and IBM) see OS/2 to be direct competition 
>with Windows and NT and they have been doing there best to hinder OS/2
>(or at least to do nothing that could be seen to promote it) - i.e.
>remove OS/2 support from MSC, terminate OS/2 SDK, generally badmouth OS/2
>at all opportunities, choose not to producve OS/2 v2 versions of their
>apps, limit OS/2 support in NT to character based. From a business
>point of view it is just not in MS's interest to allow any OS/2 orientated
>code that they have rights to out. 
>
>Of course this goes both ways - IBM did their best to make things difficult
>for MS after the break up by pointing out all the IBM patents that MS
>of someone else's battle.
>

While it's naive of me to think that MS might permit an OS/2 developer
to use its code, I would have thought that IBM, having been an OS/2
partner with MS for some time, would have rights to code developed at
least during the time of their joint work together or, depending upon
agreements, even after (it's not as if MS would really *need* code to an
OS/2 2.x driver, right?).  Doesn't IBM have any real say in this at all?

Joe Malloy
German Department / Hamilton College / Clinton, New York  

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