__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 17:42 \__
> "Because some OSS developers choose to distribute their programs under
> licenses such as the GPL that may be inconsistent with longstanding and
> well-accepted RAND license terms,
>
> these developers may refuse to implement such open standards in their
> products, thereby impairing such software?s interoperability potential"
>
>
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/3/8/43839851-BF75-4EAB-8C01-18B41851DA7B/GIP_OpenStds.doc
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Microsoft used undocumented Windows APIs - Iowa testimony
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| 'All I can say is holy API batman...I'm not kidding...we are talking
| about literally 500-800 APIs here, no joke,' he wrote.
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| Alepin had earlier claimed that Microsoft ran special demonstration
| programs whose sole purpose was to crash rival products and alleged
| that the company had subverted developers who used Microsoft's
| version of Java 'thinking they were developing multi-platform
| applications, but were actually developing Windows-specific
| applications'.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101947/microsoft-used-undocumented-windows-apis-iowa-testimony.html
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