Re: [LUG] More On The Patents/M$ Agenda

[Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 19 November 2004 08:21, Darke, Clive wrote:

> I have to wonder if there is any DEC, sorry Compac, sorry HP, "Intellectual
> Property" in Win32.  One of the prime movers of NT was Dave Cutler, who was
> a senior engineer on DEC VMS.  Increment each letter of "VMS" and you
> get...

There was a large payment made by Microsoft for some of that.
Long after the event.


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