Re: Isolationism is history.

From: Al Davis (ad34_at_freeelectron.net)
Date: 01/31/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:58:55 -0500

    > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
    > > ...............  Microsoft
    > > does tend to use gotos for error exits.

    Nothing wrong with this. It is called "throwing an exception". C++ and
    java have keywords "try", "catch", "throw" to make it official.

    > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
    > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows
    > > CE.NET source which is freely available.  It's a fork.  You can get
    > > a flavor of it.  If you try real hard, you can probably via a
    > > University take a look at the source -- Microsoft is handing out
    > > read-access grudgingly.  Work within the system and you can
    > > accomplish that goal.
    >

    On Friday 30 January 2004 04:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
    > But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted"
    > if you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software
    > thereafter could be difficult.

    This is the original basis for the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit.

    Writing any software that is in any way similar thereafter could be
    different. 

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