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Jason Costomiris (jcostom@netaxs.com) wrote:
: 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...

Actually, Apple commissioned Canyon to port Apple code over to MS 
Windows. Canyon's contract stipulated that Canyon wouldn't work 
on a similar project for another platform. NOt only did they 
write something similar for Intel, but TWO THOUSAND lines of 
source code identical to the Canyon-ported code ended up in 
INtel's product. 

Even worse, the theft was discovered when a sample application 
written by an APple engineer showing 
how to use the relevant portion of the QTW API showed up on CompuServe as 
well as on the MS developer's CD, billsed as sample code on how to use the 
VFW API 
that accomplished the same thing. NOt only did Canyon scarf the code that 
they ported over, they scarfed the sample code that was written by Apple 
engineers completely at Apple.

MS was informed of the issue and refused to admit that there was a problem.

That's where the lawsuit came in.

Intel backed down, AFAIK, as soon as they saw the evidence. MS is trying 
to tough it out.

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