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Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers

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From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 15:38
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In article <SBB.91May4135950@laplace.eng.sun.com> sbb@laplace.eng.sun.com (Steve Byrne) writes:
>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?
>
>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
AT&T and backing store is coming close.  But what does this have to do with
my question?  

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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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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers
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Date: 6 May 91 15:38:35 GMT
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