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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
This lawsuit has been ongoing for years. The big issue are developers who want to make non-windows products (like Linux) to work with the Windows machines. Samba does that, but it was reverse engineered and is under an open source license, companies want the ability to create products without conflicting with an open source license.
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So if I am reading between the lines right... companies want MS to open up their code to them, so that they can produce applications that run on windows, and don't fall under the GPL, so that they can keep it closed source, so they can make money of it.
That's what the whole point of the Windows API is.. and recently, it has gotten A LOT better. Hell, even I can understand most of the documentation they have on the API now. It's not it used to be back in 2000 when trying to write anything that would call the Win32 API was a huge pain in the ass.