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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (12397)	11/19/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It may be he said/she said to non-programmers, but not to those of us who know what's going on. Microsoft can easily make all of the additions it wants to, including things like J/Direct, without violating the contract. Microsoft is and always has been free to offer additional APIs which go directly into the Windows kernel[sic]. As a matter of fact, IBM offers additional libraries which tie in to machine specific routines. It's simply a question of how you offer the additions. Do you offer them as additional libraries, do you alter the libraries provided by Sun, or do you muck with the syntax of the language itself? The latter two options are illegal under the contract and offer no performance benefits over the first option.

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