Rick Cameron wrote (2002-03-08),
Thread: Devanagari enthousiasm! (regarding BBC Hindi site)
> It appears that hindi.exe installs Uniscribe - which, AFAIK, is not
> permitted by Microsoft - so much for honouring license agreements!
>
> That's another reason why they'd package it as an EXE.
>
Alistair Vining wrote (2002-07-22),
> The cross-platform message somewhat dulled by the font
> [Urdu Naskh Asiatype] download being a Windows .exe file
> with (judging by a message that popped up) a copy of the
> uniscribe .dll...
Martin Kochanski asked (2002-07-22)
> If this is true, then are the BBC pirating Microsoft's software?
> And if that is the case, could Microsoft please either sue or
> not sue?
Was this question ever answered? Should we be looking forward
to MS/NBC/BBC ? Enquiring minds want to know.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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