Re: Microsoft Linux!

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just pointing out that this discussion belongs on 
"os-discuss@kalamazoolinux.org"
and not on this, the general, mailling list.  I'll comment on this 
message in
that mailling list.


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> Later, as MS-DOS/Win3.1 spread like a... well, like a spreading thing, 
only fast,
> cheap clone makers popped up because AMI and others reverse-engineered 
IBM's PC
> BIOS. So on the one hand, we have the government, partially, to thank for 
cracking
> open the PC market. On the other hand, government today, under the 
influence of
> Corporate America and the DMCA, might not allow AMI to repeat its feat.