Re:Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux
by bitwize on Saturday March 13, 2021 @05:05PM
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> Tim once referred to Win32 as a free and open standard. I don't think he _understands_ what it means to be a truly free and open standard.
Sun tried to get the Windows API to be an open standard by submitting it to ISO, so that they could claim their alternate implementation (Wabi) was standards compliant.
Microsoft told the standards committee "you can't do that! That API is our IP!"
And so the Public Windows Initiative came to an end. Funny, now Microsoft is arguing against APIs as IP as an amicus in Oracle v. Google.
Sun tried to get the Windows API to be an open standard by submitting it to ISO, so that they could claim their alternate implementation (Wabi) was standards compliant.
Microsoft told the standards committee "you can't do that! That API is our IP!"
And so the Public Windows Initiative came to an end. Funny, now Microsoft is arguing against APIs as IP as an amicus in Oracle v. Google.