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From: lotto@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Public Domain examples from MASM 5.0
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Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 10:23:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  7 10:23:16 1987
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In article <419@ur-tut.UUCP> akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Atul Kacker) writes:
>That still doesn't answer the point that Dick Flanagan was trying to 
>make.  Why should they have been posted in the first place?  Why not
>announce that you have them and see if anyone is interested in getting
>them?

They should have been posted because Microsoft said the "examples"
were public domain but put copyright notices on the prerequisite
include files. The status of the macro files and the mixed languages
programming sources was ambiguous (from the documentation) at best.
Microsoft is large enough that I am sure that there is still some
internal disagreement over the decision to release these sources to
the public domain (at least between the legal, marketing and research
groups). It goes with the corporate territory. I felt that obtaining a
clear statement from Microsoft and then holding them to it (through my
posting) would lessen the possibility of any changes of heart or mind
in the future, or at least clarify Microsoft's position.

>      And then if sufficient number of people wanted them they should
>have been posted to the sources newsgroup and not here.

Which sources group is that, comp.sources.misc or unix-pc.sources :-)?
As far as I know, there is no active ibmpc sources newsgroup. If there
was, I would have used it. If there is, we should hear about it soon
and I will use it in the future. If there isn't, what are you
referring to?


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