Hello Liam,
that's the way other programs talk to the OS; copying it was and is
considered fair game.
Is it? By whom?
The whole discussion around the recent Google v. Oracle court case?
If anything, it should show clearly that there is _nothing_ _nefarious_
whatsoever in writing a system which implements a similar API --- or
even the exact same API --- as some other system.
It only "sounds" nefarious in the MS-DOS 1.x case, because Microsoft
"The Great Satan" happens to be involved.
CP/M's API was not public info, although in those early days most
companies did publish source code to enable software to be ported.
I am pretty sure that _any_ interface for interacting with an OS _has_
to be public information at some point. Otherwise there is no way for
third parties to actually, well, write applications for it.
Thank you!
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