InstallShield and ole question...

[Dan Kegel]

Jeremy White wrote:
> With COM, the other issue is that someone needs to look at the MS patents
> in this area.  Mainsoft is telling people that they can't use Wine to
> port COM code, because Microsoft holds patents on some of the Vtable
> logic used in COM (and no, I don't have any more detail than that, 
> this came to me third hand).
> I've also asked the FSF for help tracking this FUD down and refuting it.

For the curious:
Snooping on his conversation using google.com, I see it's patent number
5297284 he's worried about.

http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5297284

- Dan