Re: NT / NeXT trivia

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From: uunetlkbalkb Larry Blische
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:07

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In article <1992Sep27.191416.762@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave  
Griffiths) writes:
> 
> It's a lot of work to supply DOS and Windows capability for NS486, and  
it's
> my guess that it's too much for NeXT. We'll probably have to buy a special
> new version of SoftPC. That's why NeXT can promise that the ability to
> run Windows programs will be there, but become coy on details.

Not only would it be "a lot" of work, but it just might be illegal too.

I'm not a lawyer, but I can't imagine that anyone could get away with  
selling their own implementation of Windows, running on the native hardware,  
without being subject to the "Look and Feel" litigation of todays computer  
software business.  It is ok to BUY MS-DOS and MS-Windows to run under the  
SoftPC emulator but is it ok to write a look-alike for these programs?

I'd love to hear comments about this from any lawyers out there...

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Subject: Re: NT / NeXT trivia
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