Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)

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From: John Henders
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1991 09:45

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In article <1991Aug1.145714@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com> mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com writes:
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>In article <1991Aug1.005932.13269@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
>Anyone? How about Tom Watson? Besides, the suit wasn't because it was bad
>for the industry, the issue was unfair competition. IBM won the suit, by the
>way. Do we accept accusation by the government as proof of evil nature in
>this newsgroup?

	Wasn't the whole thing ordered dropped by Reagon when he got elected,
before it ever got to court? That's what I remember from reading Big Blue,
written by one of the team who gathered evidence against IBM. Talk about 
rewriting history.
	I do agree that the open system was a good thing though, and the
market seems to have agreed, from the number of clones out there. It's
too bad the makers of better systems couldn't have gotten the hint.
	There's plenty of 8 bit periferals for the 68k series too, BTW.


	John Henders
	Vancouver,B.C.

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