Apple has already zapped a Mac clone -- but it may not be so bad

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From: David V. Wallace
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 18:19

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A couple of messages have said "when the Mac clones start to
appear..."  Well Apple has already nixed on Mac clone,about two years
ago.  They did so by buying the rights and deep sixing the product.

I don't blame the authors for taking the cash, though I wish they'd
tried to fight it out.  But this may set a precident -- after all, if
apple had felt that they'd have had standing, they would have fought
the clone in the courts rather than just buy it outright.  Winning
that battle then would have saved them a lot of effort now.  And
Witcow DEFINATELY would have gone for it if he could have -- he told
me that himself.

So the mac clones may bring some of these issues to a head.  But that
doesn't lessen my support for the boycott -- I just turned down a good
deal for my company because it would have involved doing support for
the GNU tools on the mac.

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