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Linus boosts Microsoft legal defense? ;-)



Joseph Moore wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Ben Drasin wrote:
>
>>
>> Here is an interview with Linus Torvalds in which he states his belief
>>that the
>> operating system ends where memory protection ends.  He also says
>> that's just his opinion.
[snip]
>> Bye-Ben
>
>I guess that means that everything running under Windows (<NT) is part of
>the operating system... since there is no real memory protection in
>Win(<NT).  So maybe MS _can_ call the browser part of the OS... ;)
>--Joe



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