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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 01:38:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.013838.25707@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec30.181456.7768@elegant.com> <C03I3E.10C@world.std.com> <C04x4q.17E@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> <1993Jan03.203640.24282@Celestial.COM>
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- In <1993Jan03.203640.24282@Celestial.COM> ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
-
- :A Micorsoft "evangalist" (sp?) that gave a talk at one of our meeting
- :(Unix user group) stated that NT would be marketed first in the server
- :market, but was indeed capable of multi-user. That feature would be
- :marketed 9 months to a year after introduction. But, what the hell, its
- :just a rewrite of UNIX so they won't have to pay UNIX royalties, so why
- :shouldn't it be multi-user.
-
- I wonder.... Microsoft had (has) a UNIX source license when they
- originally developed Xenix. Could this open them up to trade
- secret violations suits similar to the USL v BSDI case?
-
- Why would anyone want to use an OS that would make them dependent
- on such a benevolent company as Microsoft?
-
- Bill
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