BJORK@su-score.arpa (03/07/86)
According to an article in a trade journal Microsoft has changed their policy for programs compiled with their software. Quote `Under the new agreement, which automatically covers all owners of Microsoft compilers, customers who develop programs using Microsoft's products are free to distribute their programs as long as they also distribute Microsoft runtime modules with the software and do not use Microsoft's name or logo to market the software'. Now, is this statement mere turgidity on the part of the author of the news article or is it a real change on the part of Microsoft? I doubt if I will ever purchase a Microsoft compiler. But for those who have no choice I suspect this will be good news (if true). Odds are that the pressure from people with products such as Turbo Pascal are what caused this change on Microsoft's part. --Steve, an olde-timey CPM/MPM80 hacker -------