Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Mark Eaton
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:37

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In article <40avpd$rke@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:

> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) wrote:

> ] Companies like Apple, on the other hand, work hard on providing new
> ] technologies.  Things like QuickTime, PlainTalk, etc.  I've never seen
> ] this kind of stuff come out of the GNU community.  I'd be far more
> ] impressed and far more embracing if I saw them pushing the envelope
> ] instead of small refinements; innovating instead of just evolving.
> 
> QuickTime is from SGI.

Oh yeah? Where did you hear that?

> PlainTalk is fluff.

IYHO

> 
> What about GhostScript and GNUStep?  What about the OpenGL clone?
> 
> (Look ma, I'm defending the GNU community!)
> 

Well, you said the word yourself: clones [of existing tehnology]. If the
argument is new technology, clones of existing technology are irrelavent.

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Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 15:37:25 -0800
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