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Article #74427Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 20:52
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 20:52
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In article <SBB.91May1071845@laplace.eng.sun.com> sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) writes: >Or maybe I've got the meaning of "low bid" wrong...when you say "low bid", do >you mean the company with the lowest amount of innovation over the last 7 >years (Apple & MS are close on this one)? Or does "low" here mean "low" in the I'm curious. What exactly do you consider "innovation". You seem to imply that other systems have innovated more. What systems? What innovations? My guess is that you mean Unix, but I can't for the life of me think of any innovations in Unix in the past 7 years that weren't taken from previous systems. How is that any different than the Mac? -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,61ae69d3e56a37be X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-04 13:51:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers Message-ID: <1991May2.205225.1106@alphalpha.com> Date: 2 May 91 20:52:25 GMT References: <1991Apr25.153513.27353@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <9104290400.AA25377@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1991Apr29.181238.29784@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <SBB.91May1071845@laplace.eng.sun.com> Distribution: gnu Organization: asi Lines: 19