On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Ken Arromdee wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > The kernel provides a public, documented, freely implementable interface > > of system calls. I don't know if you can replace it with something > > else, but you should be able to. > > Then any Windows program which uses undocumented Windows system calls (of > which there are plenty) is a derivative work of Windows and can't be > distributed without Microsoft's permission, at least until someone discovers > the system calls and implements them in Wine?
Given the licenses on Windows and its SDK, MS probably owns your first born if you write *any* Windows program. Expecting freedom for developers on Windows is probably silly, since normal users don't have it either. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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