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To: Lin who wrote (19136)	3/29/1999 9:23:00 AM
From: William Chaney	of 74651

Lin- You're exactly correct. Whatever the solution is, the state AG's should realize that MS did exactly this (make older versions obsolete) in the past with the "Win32 extensions", which just happened to make the OS/2 windows not work with programs, even though the changes added no functionality to the programs. That's why SUN gave up on WABI--because they realized that they were trying to hit a perpetually moving target. The only licensing solution that would work would be one that included all operating systems that MS developed, including WIN 2000, any OS's developed in the future, and new "versions" of these systems. I doubt if MS would go for that.

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