From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

No-one. They'll be shooting at their own foot if they do. The whole
existence of Windows depends on software being developed on it, you just
can't make that difficult. I think it's just poorly written legal schmegal
- the way I read it is *if* you sign their agreement and then use *their*
stuff in weird ways, they can jump on it.

If I were to build a product using a 3rd party ribbon, and someone from MS
contacted me and told me to do it their way, I'd simply just drop the whole
ribbon thing.


Antti Kurenniemi

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.tlambu0vm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>I know you don't know the answer to this but ... one of the postings
>pointed to an article that said MS was going to be aggressive about
>protecting their IP investment in the ribbon.  Now, if I put a third-party
>ribbon in my app, who's MS going to come after?
>
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:50:45 -0500, Antti Kurenniemi
>  wrote:
>
>>>
>>> 1.  Can it be implemented on XP?  XP-SP1?  XP-SP2?
>>
>> Yes, with 3rd party stuff at least. I already have such a component,
>> although for the life of me I don't know what the hell to do with it. It
>> just feels so stupid.
>>
>>
>>
>

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