Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?

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From: Tim Smith
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:26

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anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>it does not have much resources and would probably lose.  Suits are in
>Apple's best interest as it has much resources and often wins.  Apple
>only loses against similarly large, powerful companies.
>
>The issue just isn't proprietary vs open, litigious vs coopertive, it's
>also the corporate monolith vs the little guy.

So why did Apple pay off the guy who claimed Hypercard infringed his
patent rather than just litigate his tiny company out of existence?

--Tim Smith

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