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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Jeff Patten
date: 1995-05-03 21:57:20
subject: Watcom C/C++ (was: Os/2 C++)

MB> That will never happen.  Each API is intellectual property. 
 MB> In order to make a product that converts, say, the Windows
 MB> API into the OS/2 PM API, you would have to get Microsoft to
 MB> agree.  This is a very complicated issue.  For one thing,
 MB> Microsoft might be in for antitrust problems if they refused
 MB> to grant such a license on reasonable terms.

   Didn't IBM obtain rights to clone Win32 APIs as part of the deal where
IBM pulled out of NT development?

Jeff

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