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In article <haney.688605042@moonshine> haney@moonshine.llnl.gov (Scott W. Haney) writes:
>To compare Apple's business practices with terrorists producing nerve
>gas is absolutely outrageous.  Please get some perspective.  In addition,
>don't the means that arnej@lise.unit.no proposes for influencing people
>at the university bother you?  Or is it "the means justifies the ends"
>when talking about Apple?
>
	Apple, Lotus and others practice legal terrorism, i.e. they
	intimidate innovators by threatening law suits. It is VERY
	appropriate to compare Apple to terrorists because Apple
	IS a terrorist organization, they just use legal treats rather
	than guns or nerve gas. Apple, Lotus and others are a DIRECT
	and SERIOUS threat to the software design and development
	community. If they are not stopped we will all be either working
	for huge companys that can afford to pay extortion money for
	"non-obvious" concepts like user interfaces, or else go into
	another profession because we'd be sued out of existance if
	we tried to independantly develop software that would use
	all sorts of "non-obvious" algorithms like addition, subtraction,
	xor, window movement, recalculation of dependant variables, etc.
	If you think I'm being rediculous just be glad the lawyers at
	the various companys don't realise you could software patent ANY
	concept as long as the legal mumbo jumbo is complex enough. The
	patent office is NOT staffed by computer scientists with legal
	degrees...

	Wake up! Allowing Apple, and other companys like it, to make ANY money
	is funding the eventual destruction of your profession.

		-Rob