!Re: Nuke Redmond! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Apr 2000

...
 Since MUCH fewer than 1% of the people who use MS
products are engagedin
activity which would make them aware of the differences and similarities
between MS-DOS and CP/M if they knew both OS' I'd have to say the internals
are really never going to be part of a legal argument.  Most judges, after
all, don't write their own programs. 

Be aware that the judge did decide and MS was in trouble.

In reality similar and copied were the issues then.  User interfaces are
less protected.

I live in both worlds, both user and systems designer/programmer.  So I have
an
appreciation of both sets of issues.  To me MS makes both sides of the coin
harder
as it's hard to program defensively from an OS that eats itself while
calling itself protected.
Though I am finding NT4 a vast improvement.

Allison