However Microsoft or its new anti-Wabi champion, Insignia Solutions could still sue.
He was a co-founder of Insignia Solutions, a British personal computer software vendor, but left in 1988 to move to Silicon Valley.
Microsoft duly licenses Windows source code and associated intellectual property - the Windows user interface, Windows APIs, and the Windows trademark and logo to Insignia Solutions.
Robertson Stephens' Insignia Solutions, for example, has gained 48 percent since going public on Tuesday.
When the Power Macintosh models arrived last year, a program called Soft PC from Insignia Solutions cleverly fooled the Power PC chip into thinking it was a 386-level chip.
AT first glance, Insignia Solutions, which makes software that allows Windows-based programs to run on Apple computers, seems to be distancing itself from Apple nicely.
Power Macs can also run applications written for Microsoft's Windows and MS-DOS operating systems, using emulation software provided by Insignia Solutions.
He then joined Insignia Solutions as the director of product marketing.
Insignia Solutions.
The emulators were developed by Insignia Solutions.