Re: LPF boycott of Apple

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From: John Coolidge
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 20:23

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rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:
>In article <1991Oct29.122921.24775@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, Thomas Okken (to) writes:

>to> Sure you're not completely callous. You decide to vilify and boycott Apple,
>to> one of the very few companies that has brought some real innovation to the
>to> industry[...]

>Please name some of these innovations (post Apple II, some of the
>things they did way back when certainly were newish).

>["innovations" deleted]

If you're sincere in the belief that Apple has not brought any
innovation to the market, then you shouldn't be worried about their
lawsuit. Their claims rely only on work done at Apple, and so if they
win we will only lose the right to reuse things are aren't innovative
and are therefore not worth cloning anyway.

--John

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