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Article #1203Re: Windows 95 hoopla
From: Jason Costomiris
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:12
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:12
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In article <Brghteye-1308952234390001@calvin.cts.com>, Patrick McKinnion (Brghteye@cts.com) spake unto us, thusly saying: : I think he's refering to the current lawsuit, where Apple is suing M$ : because 20,000+ lines of code in QuickTime for Windows "mysteriously" : appeared in M$'s Video for Windows. (At last report, M$ downgraded to MS didn't even write that particular hunk of code. Canyon did. Canyon sold it to MS. If anyone is in trouble, it may be Canyon. However, I seem to recall that Apple did not purchase the rights to the code. They only purchased the right to use the code. BIG difference... -- Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key jcostom@netaxs.com | "...You'll sweat grease." My employers like me, but not enough | --overheard outside the new to let me speak for them. | restaurant, "Everything Pork." http://www.netaxs.com/~jcostom
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netaxs.com!jcostom From: jcostom@netaxs.com (Jason Costomiris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Windows 95 hoopla Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 17 Aug 1995 12:12:16 GMT Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider Distribution: inet Message-ID: <40vbn0$hs9@netaxs.com> References: <40ies7$10c@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> <Brghteye-1308952234390001@calvin.cts.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: unix5.netaxs.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]