🚀 go-pugleaf

Larry Blische writes
>> 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?

As I understoood it (and I've been wrong before), nobody was going to  
write look-alikes (why would one _want_ to?) - they were going to  
provide a way to run the actual DOS + Windows apps (much like  
Executor right now lets you run Mac app).  There was even mention of  
paying MS license fees for something or other that would be needed to  
accomplish this (my memory is getting fuzzy).

Not a lawyer either, but if it can be made to work, it sounds kosher  
to me.

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Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)