On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > The FSF's position here is well-known, but has some odd implications. For > > instance, if you write code that requires Windows libraries, it is a > > derivative > > work of Windows, and thus Microsoft can at any time prohibit you from > > distributing it. > Bad example. There are two implementations of most of the significant > win32 libraries - windows and wine. Anything which works on both is a > derivative of neither.
So before Wine was created, anything which uses a Windows library was a derivative of Windows?
