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From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:21:27 GMT
Date: 2004-09-24T03:21:27+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41538DEF.173B529E@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SpmdncOlcJjV1M7cRVn-iA@megapath.net

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> The full name of our flagship Ada 95 product is "Janus/Ada 95
> Professional for Microsoft Windows 95/NT", which is unfortunate
> these days. That name came about because of a - ahem -
> correspondence with Microsoft's attorneys. Essentially, we're
> not allowed to use a better name (that is, leaving off the OS
> designators), and listing all of the options is just too
... snip ...

I would like to hear more about this.  What possible justification
can MS have for this?

-- 
 "It is not a question of staying the course, but of changing
  the course"                        - John Kerry, 2004-09-20
 "Ask any boat owner the eventual result of continuing the
  present course indefinitely"    - C.B. Falconer, 2004-09-20




  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-16 23:57 Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada Jim Gurtner
2004-09-17  0:28 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-09-17  1:16   ` Jim Gurtner
2004-09-17 23:08   ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-18  0:26     ` stephane richard
2004-09-18  0:57       ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-09-20  0:23       ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-20  2:11         ` stephane richard
2004-09-20 14:05           ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-20 20:55             ` stephane richard
2004-09-20 22:06               ` Björn Persson
2004-09-21  0:38                 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-21  2:44                   ` stephane richard
2004-09-21 11:48                     ` Björn Persson
2004-09-21 18:08                       ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-21  1:07             ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-09-21 16:59               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-09-21 19:12                 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-21 19:49                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-09-22  0:50                     ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 10:08                 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-09-22 13:04                   ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-09-22 13:52                     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-22 20:59                       ` Simon Wright
2004-09-22 22:19                         ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-23 19:12                           ` Simon Wright
2004-09-23 22:22                           ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-09-22 23:06                       ` Björn Persson
2004-09-22 16:56                     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-09-22 17:36                       ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-23 10:34                     ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-09-21 20:34             ` Tom
2004-09-21 22:07               ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-09-22  6:20                 ` Tom
2004-09-22  7:48                   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-09-22 20:28                     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-09-22 23:15                       ` Björn Persson
2004-09-23 22:19                         ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-22  9:21                   ` Ada and malicious software Björn Persson
2004-09-22 16:59                     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-09-23  7:33                       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-09-22  0:56               ` Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22  2:43               ` stephane richard
2004-09-22  9:24                 ` Peter Hermann
2004-09-23 22:09               ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-24  3:21                 ` CBFalconer [this message]
2004-09-26 11:02                 ` Tom
2004-09-17  2:10 ` Steve
2004-09-17  4:30   ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-09-17 23:58 ` Christopher Browne
2004-09-18  1:01   ` Ed Falis
2004-09-18  3:50     ` Christopher Browne
2004-09-18 11:22   ` Simon Wright
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2004-09-17  6:10 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
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