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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MSW 3.0 font format, DDK???
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Date: 25 Oct 90 14:51:40 GMT
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In a recent article wescheng@hpcc01.HP.COM (Wesley Cheng) writes:
 
>I got word that the MSW 3.0 font file format can be found in the "DDK" 
>from Microsoft. Can anybody tell me what this DDK is? 

It's the Device Driver Kit.  I don't have the flyer for it handy, but
memory puts the price at $550 or so from uSoft.  An order blank comes
as part of the SDK.

I haven't seen it advertised from any of the mail order houses (can
anyone in NetLand correct this?), so you have to pay uSoft's list
price and order direct.

A recent posting on usenet stated that the license for the DDK included
a what's-yours-belongs-to-Microsoft clause which purportedly requires you
to give any source you develop to Microsoft.  This *sounds* a little
unlikely even for this lawyer-infested industry, but I don't have the
DDK, and haven't seen any followup postings on the net.  Again, can
anyone reading this newsgroup provide additional info?

Joe Morris