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From: wallis@sieras.enet.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: BC++ and MSC SDK...
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Date: 4 Mar 91 15:28:06 GMT
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In article <27180@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes...
>About Borland using MSC for their stuff.  I DOUBT IT SEVERELY.  To find
>out, simply use GREP or Norton Text Search (TS) and search .COM and .EXE
>files for the string "Borland" or "Microsoft".  Compilers usually embed
>this copyright string in the software they compile (hey, I found it in
>LHX Attack Chopper and all the Borland QPRO stuff!).
> 

Here's an interesting twist. The Whitewater Resource Toolkit Resource Compiler
is Microsoft's. In fact when you run it the only copyright that is displayed is
by Microsoft. So I guess Borland licensed it from Whitewater and Whitewater
licensed it from MS (and they each need to make a profit on it).

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