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Article #1052Re: "official" FSF position on apple
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:17
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:17
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In article <HmeRRB19w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: > Burble burble? If you define a Macintosh as "any machine containing Apple > ROMs", then yes, they do. But that's about as sensible as defining an IBM PC > as "any machine running MS-DOS". I think what he's getting at is that you can't buy those ROMS unless you get a Mac wrapped around them. If you're getting an upgrade or a replacement, you have to send the old ones back. > How do you know they don't want to sell the Mac OS without the hardware? They've stated as much in as many words. > They seem to be willing to sell it to Radius and Outbound. I beleive they're actually buying complete Macs and cannibalizing them. That's what other vendors have had to do. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' "Segodnja volka obnimal?" 'U`
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:17:51 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep28.111751.13586@NeoSoft.com> References: <1a2u96INNbtp@uwm.edu> <HmeRRB19w165w@mantis.co.uk> Lines: 21