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From: "James Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
To: Jonathan Roberts <jonathan AT acadiacom DOT net>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:04:37 -0500
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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> At 10:29 PM 3/31/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >>         I read about a FreeWin95 project a while back.  I haven't heard
> >> anything since, but it may still be under way.  I'll append their text now,
> >> hopefully no one minds...
> >[text deleted for brevity]
> >I am subscribed to the Freewin95 mailing list - they put out a poll, 
> >to their members, as to several options. It was elected that it be 
> >called Windows Operating System, and that it be compatible with 
> >WinNT.
> >
> >It is still just in the beginning stages, but coordinators for the 
> >various projects have been selected.
> >
> >You will have to visit their web site to get more info. :-) do a 
> >search on the name - it should get you somewhere (since my hard drive 
> >bit the bullet, I have lost the address of the freewin mailing list, 
> >and the website - the list is very quiet, and I have been having more 
> >to look at here :-) )
> 
>         Ahh, okay.  Thanks for the info.  Oh, did you realize this didn't go
> out on the OpenDOS list or did you mean it to go just to me?
No - thanks - I am posting it all so it shows on the list :-) (the 
major storm out here had me fried;-)

> 
>         Regarding the name they decided, isn't that kinda risky?  Wouldn't
> Microsoft have a problem with that?
I personally voted against it - and my vote was drowned out - and 
when I tried to reply to the list, the address I used was invalid - I 
still think that M$ trademarked "windows", so (even tho M$ should 
have trademarked Windows95, but not windows) there may be problems 
:-(


> 
> Toodles!
> 
> Jonathan Roberts
> The Keeper of The Caverns
> jonathan AT acadiacom DOT net
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