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Article #74312Re: Latest Apple vs. Microsoft news
From: Dave Sill
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 18:20
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 18:20
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In article <mX7631w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: > >"[...] according to reports, Apple is reviving the look-and-feel wrangle by >alleging that Microsoft virtually blackmailed Apple into granting a license >[ for Windows ] by saying it would not develop applications for the Mac >without it. Well good for Microsoft. Last time I checked, there was no law against "virtual blackmail". Microsoft, or anyone else, is free to develop software for a platform, or not. If they chose to make it conditional on the granting of certain licenses, what's wrong with that? Nobody's forced Apple to comply. I think the whole idea is silly. -- Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) Tug on anything in nature and you will find Martin Marietta Energy Systems it connected to everything else. Workstation Support --John Muir
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,e93dae3ff99bfe4a X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-06-07 20:47:32 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!utkcs2!ornl.gov!de5 From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Latest Apple vs. Microsoft news Keywords: Apple, Microsoft, lots and lots of lawyers Message-ID: <1991Jun7.182050.5688@cs.utk.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 18:20:50 GMT References: <mX7631w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Reply-To: Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov> Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lines: 19