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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (33228)	11/8/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Gerald, Who owns those patents, Gerald???? They don't prevent the same O/S from running on different PC's. I can buy a copy of Windows 98 and run it on a Packard-Bell or a CPQ or some offshore piece of junk I buy for less than $500. DELL can own patents on power supplies or fans and temperature monitors, but that doesn't change the open spec of the PC. Nice try, but no cigar on this one. Language processors that are BOUND to assemblers are part of the hardware spec and are optimized to work on a specific piece of hardware. Scripting languages are NOT BOUND to any assembler, so they do not belong with a piece of hardware. Therefore, I can have Perl, Tcl, or Java running on lots of different computers. But an Intel-based C compiler only runs on x86-spec machines.

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