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In article <35qotg$hh6@Tut.MsState.Edu>, stewart@faser.cs.olemiss.edu
(Douglas L Stewart) wrote:

> Apple is picked on because about 1980 or so they had a decision to make.
> They could either allow others to understand their architecture (such
> as IBM basically did), or they could have a closed architecture to 
> try to prevent anyone except themselves write software for their  
> computers.  If you tried to open up the Macs and figure out what made
> them tick in order to write good software for them, you would be hit
> with a lawsuit.  This is why PCs killed Macs in the 80's.
> 
> --

That may all be well and good, Douglas, but most of us stopped living in
the 80's when the 90's started, and now that the PowerMacs are killing the
Pentiums, maybe it is time to stop the squabbling and simply realize that
neither machine is going away, so perhaps we should coexist.

I sincerely hope that Richard Stallman and GNU also come into the 90's but
that appears less likely, given his recent diatribe against Tcl which he
saw fit to inflict on numerous groups.

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Jerry Wilcox == Jerry.Wilcox@ucop.edu
I don't speak for the University and it doesn't speak for me.