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Article #16149Re: Re: MacApp Licensing Fee
From: rcopm
Date: Wed, 13 May 1987 03:57
Date: Wed, 13 May 1987 03:57
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In tribute to...
The on-going saga of
"I thought of it (maybe not first),
You pay for it, and will do so for the rest of my natural life "
Joel West writes...
> If there were a competing product to MacApp without royalties, I'd be
> interested, but right now it offers unique advantages.
Thats Funny, Think and Xerox could have said something similar about their
products (while they were still unique - in Xerox's case). Oh, sorry,
I forgot that *ALL* the Dolphin and Dorado (not to mention SmallTalk) creators
were/are employed by Apple at some stage or another :-]. Thus Apple owns their
thoughts, even though some of them don't work there any more. OK so Xerox has
a finger in Apple's pie, so what?
All credit to Apple for producing a beautiful series of machines.
All credit to Apple for producing a wonderful user interface.
All credit to Apple for Challenging the IBM Monopoly.
What do they want to be now? A Monopoly? Or "Thought Police?"
Read your own Technical Notes, Apple!
A Compiler is a compiler!
Homage is paid since the only machines that MacApp (currently) works on
are Apples.
So why the Royalty?
No excuses, No BS!
Paul Menon.
Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
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