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From: dragheb@isis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft copyright notice
Message-ID: <1666@isis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 00:09:16 EST
Article-I.D.: isis.1666
Posted: Mon Feb 23 00:09:16 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Feb-87 01:51:21 EST
References: <471@gouldsd.UUCP> <425@omepd> <836@maynard.BSW.COM>
Reply-To: dragheb@isis.UUCP (Darius "OPRDRT" Ragheb)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
Lines: 24
Keywords: copyright, Microsoft, C

In article <836@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:

>Yes, you read right.  Your whizzy new Poppy 4-5-6 spreadsheet product,
>if built with MS C, must spout out some free advertising for Microsoft
>every time it's run, and your floppy labels must also bear Microsoft's
>name.
>
That's kind of strange: I always thought that dBase III was written
in MSC (or was that using v 3.0?), and I don't recall seeing it
display such a notice (course, I am an assembly language programmer,
and just read over shoulders of people using dBase :-)

>We found this so obnoxious that (after calling Microsoft to make sure
>we hadn't misunderstood the license) we returned the compiler for a refund
>and have switched to Computer Innovations C-86.

I don't blame you one bit!  With all the discussion of the customer
support, etc, and personal experience with MS (just as an end user)
I have one thing to say to Micro Soft: "ppphhhhpptt!"
-- 
Do it in C.  If you can't do it in C, do it in Assembly. 
If you can't  do it in Assembly, it is not worth doing!!

Darius Ragheb    isis!dragheb  |  dragheb@isis.cs.du.edu