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Date:  Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:10:39 -0800
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From:  Thomas Garson <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] NETBIOS/NETBEUI Peer over GenMac/Intel 200BG

Howard Winter wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:30:30 -0800, Thomas Garson wrote:
> 
> 
>>she confirmed that NT is NOT a 
>>spin off of the OS/2 project, despite some rumors to the contrary. She 
>>worked directly with the team of ex DEC employees who wrote it, from the 
>>ground up, as a "clean room" knock off of the DEC operating system, 
>>which they had just completed prior to departing DEC.
> 
> 
> That's a pretty mucky sort of "clean room"!  I think if DEC had had the money and the will, they could have 
> clobbered MS for breach of copyright.  I think the usual definition of a clean room development is that the 
> participants have no prior knowledge of the "other" software, let alone having developed it.

I guess I did say Clean Room without specifying whose definition was 
used (not mine). Anyway, no argument from me.

I suspect that somebody at DEC probably got a chunk of cash in his 
pocket to not bring it up, and a letter from a Microsoft lawyer that 
they would be willing to spend more than the gross national product of a 
small Carribean country if DEC sued them, so take the bribe and go away.

There is another possibility. I have no way of knowing if this is true 
or not, but DEC may have decided that these folks were no longer 
required after finishing the job and let them go. Terminated employees 
often suddenly think of ways to do a job better than one they just 
completed for the former employer.

Thomas Garson
Aural Technology, Ashland, Or.
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