Re: LPF boycott of Apple (comments & quotes from RMS interview)

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From: Dietrich Kappe
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 19:51

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In article <31OCT199101462431@minnie.me.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:

   The recent Apple-IBM agreement is the latest example of this thinking.
   Here we have two big companies with large investments in original 
   research and development who have cross-licensed significant 
   portions of their technology to each other.

Of course IBM's third quarter net-earnings drop from $1.1 Billion last year
to $174 Million this year might have something to do with it.

Not that I'm implying that IBM engaged in monopolistic practices or that
legal protection, etc. will result in stagnation, or that stagnation and
excessive memo writing have brought IBM to its knees. Nah, I know better.
After all, I grew up in Binghamton, NY. :-)

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Dietrich Kappe
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Center for Population Economics

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