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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22595)2/7/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 

Initially I would have said you are right. However, I think that you are only right if the Microsoft app. it is
trying to tie to the OS has no DLLs used only by itself.

Now we're starting to talk about the internal configurations of Microsoft-produced software. I think that the courts are going to have to understand that software is so malleable that it's impossible to make distinctions based on pieces of code such as "DLL'S."
What's a .DLL vs. a .EXE vs a .BAT file? The differences matter only as far as the conventions set up by Microsoft early on and enforced somewhat by the operating system. If the law comes down to how a piece of code is configured as a set of files, then Microsoft will be able to configure the code appropriately.
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