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For the record, Apple is now officially blessing efforts to clone Macintosh
hardware.  The reason is simple; the lack of (many) Macintosh clones is
hampering Macintosh's further penetration in the commercial market.  Software
is, after all, where the money is at, and Apple stand to make pure profit from
the sale of each clone in software licensing fees.

It is possible to buy complete Mac system software packages.  For example,
KanjiTalk is distributed as a complete system software package and not an
upgrade.

Complacency is the enemy of innovation, and I would advise the NeXT community
not to become complacent.  Mac is a bear to program (although THINK C helps a
lot), but for the non-programmer there is much more you can do with a Mac than
with a NeXT.  For multi-national wordprocessing, the Mac still wins
hands-down.  The vaunted Japanese NeXT OS is still not available outside of
Japan, and is still threatened to be unaffordable even if/when NeXT/Canon get
off their high horse and make it available here.  It also has a serious bug;
it strips you of the ability to do European-language wordprocessing.

The one thing that NeXT does well is that it's a cheap BSD Unix-like box.
NeXT made a very wise decision in abandoning its efforts to compete with PC's
and Mac's and instead go after SUN.