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OS/2 I think was visa-versa, but IBM and Microsoft were in bed with each other so that was all contractual. You guys need to find an example where one company offered licensing and the other simply refused to negotiate.
Ah, I think you're right about the OS/2 one. (I did some researching, and it seems like it actually might have been developed by MS, which I did not know. I knew there was some collaboration, but I thought it was only for the ability to run Windows apps natively in OS/2.) > You guys need to find an example where one company offered licensing and the other simply refused to negotiate. Part of the trouble with this, I…
The best counter-example I can think of is "Microsoft NWLink", which was a Netware 3-compatible file server offered with Windows NT. How long and under which legal threats is unknown to me.