Sorry, but I copied the message and edited in Notepad. It seems more natural in there than in a tiny Yahoo! Mail box. _______________________________________________________ On Thursday March 15th, Alan Grimes wrote: >I think it is time to start considering our rights as a windows 3.x >community in the face of the undue influence microsoft is having over >the future of our computer use. I think we should begin considering a >legal action that will seek to reveal the technical specifications to >wich our windows software was written so that we may maintain >alternative versions should we so choose. Given that the version of >windows that I am running reports itself to have been finalized in >november of 1993, Microsoft has no valid claims for continuing to >conseal this important information as it is not of any further >commercial value to them except as a lever to force us to move to their >next generation of rented software. =( A little off-topic: I think your idea has a little similarity to what some people in the QuickBASIC community are thinking about. See, QuickBASIC is a programming language Microsoft wrote for easy DOS programming. Occasionally, someone says on some forums that Microsoft should sign off QuickBASIC 4.5 as freeware, since the copyright says "1985-1988." This is just like your idea: It's so old, just go on and give it away. Microsoft already bundled QBASIC 1.1 with MSDOS versions 5.0 and above(Including Win95, I don't know about 98 and ME.) I think Microsoft should go ahead and give away the code to Win3.1, and sign off QuickBASIC 4.5 as Freeware. In fact, they should sign off QuickBASIC 7.1 as freeware too. This might be the wrong list to talk about it in, but I just wanted you to know that other software communities had similiar ideas. (Ironically, both examples' product is made by Microsoft.) D. M.-detered@xxxxxxxxx ---"Why should I care?"--- -Common Phrase :) ===== From Me http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/entertainmentkids/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe calmira_tips" in the body. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org