🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991May2.205225.1106@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:

   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?

When I say innovation, I mean a brand new, Apple produced, major idea which is
put to use in their products.  What I am implying is that Apple has no need to
innovate since they have the legal system as their big bully to beat up on
companies which barely encroach on their territory.

How is it different from the Mac?  Please tell me of a major case where one
UNIX vendor sued another one for reimplementing an idea that they had?  Is AT&T
suing SCO because of Xenix?  This is the difference.  The UNIX marketplace
competes on a number of different attributes: price/performance, ease of use,
good support, etc. in what's generally a free market.  Apple would like nothing
better that a complete monopoly so that they don't have to compete, and can
charge whatever they want.  They've finally started realizing that despite
their best efforts, there is real competition, and so they've come out with
lower cost Macs (probably since they couldn't figure out who to sue, IMHO).

Steve