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Article #73278Re: Boycott Apple (was: A/UX comments wanted)
From: Charles Geyer
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1991 22:44
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1991 22:44
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In article <haney.688680761@moonshine>, haney@moonshine.llnl.gov (Scott W. Haney) writes: > Oh come on. Apple's lawyers are using lawful means to represent their >company with regard to legal issues that are by no means obvious. >Terrorists represent their cause by unlawful means (often KILLING >innocent people). I really cannot understand why there is an argument >here. (Or have you seen John Sculley gunning down Windows developers >recently?) Just because it's legal doesn't make it right. The Vietnam war was legal, but lots of people didn't put up with that either. Apple is trying to destroy the usefulness of computers for the "rest of us" for their own benefit. It's immoral. It will be even more immoral if the court rules in their favor than if they lose. When the law is wrong, some sort of citizen action is necessary to redress the problem. By the way I don't see anything wrong with the notion that using the threat of a lawsuit can be "terroristic." There are other ways to kill businesses and jobs besides using guns. -- Charles Geyer School of Statistics University of Minnesota charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,6535890f8096f45d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-28 16:13:30 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!umnstat.stat.umn.edu!charlie From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Boycott Apple (was: A/UX comments wanted) Keywords: a/ux,apple,macintosh Message-ID: <1991Oct28.224427.7932@cs.umn.edu> Date: 28 Oct 91 22:44:27 GMT References: <1991Oct24.021415.6592@ugle.unit.no> <5075@stl.stc.co.uk> <1991Oct27.195110.146@agate.berkeley.edu> <haney.688605042@moonshine> <1991Oct28.165812.19549@cs.umn.edu> <haney.688680761@moonshine> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Reply-To: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) Organization: University of Minnesota, School of Statistics Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: itasca.stat.umn.edu