Message-Id:	<m0wIORL-000FjwC@hn.planet.gen.nz>
Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 97 12:55 NZST
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To:	grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
From:	Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
Cc:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com

At 08:20 PM 18/04/97 +0200, Mark Habersack wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:
>
>> >DBLSPACE could).  Since Stac suffered from M$ pressure and was almost 
>> >running out of money, they made a deal with M$:  Stac was 'allowed' 
>> >to use the pre-load API (as also de-assembled by many other vendors 
>> >without being sued for), and M$ could ship DRVSPACE with MS-DOS 
>> >6.22...
>> 
>> Is it just me, but if MS have hooks in that there applications can use but
>> other peoples applications can not, then M'Soft are breaking a few laws are
>> they not? :)
>DOes that surprise you!?!? It was a long time ago Micro$loth was accused of
>such practices!

No, not at all.  I've seen pieces of Code that do all sorts of nasty things.
(winNT not running on anything but an intel processor, no reason why, it
just won't...)... Except it seems to me that Stac could have slapped them
with "hey thats not allowed" suit or sometihng :)

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