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Article #73224Re: LPF boycott of Apple
From: To the Ground
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 18:23
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 18:23
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coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes: > Apple hasn't tried to "prevent other vendors from providing the very > thing which they made so necessary", they've tried to prevent a few > vendors from stealing work they consider theirs. They _haven't_ tried to > prevent other vendors from providing GUI's. Not yet, no. They've only gone after two or three vendors. A completely plausible explanation for this is that they don't have the money to sue every company in the GUI business simultaneously, and that they won't go after everyone else until they get a legal precedent established. mathew -- Another would-be Mac owner put off by Apple's monopolistic practices. "We don't care what other people think" -- response from a member of the Apple Developer Council
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,64e514debf1e6e73 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-01 08:06:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uknet!ukc!acorn!ctssuk!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (To the Ground) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: LPF boycott of Apple Message-ID: <ia3oaB10w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 31 Oct 91 18:23:53 GMT References: <1991Oct30.203402.21266@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 19