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Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers

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From: John Clark
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 23:27
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In article <1991Apr29.181238.29784@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
+
+As I agree, in priciple, with what FSF is trying to do, I think a better 
+strategy would be to embrace the offending companys' hardware, put your 
+software on their platform, show the world how much better your stuff 
+is than theirs, and when the Market beats a path to your door, say 

This would be 'possible' if one could buy the mac without ROMS or
the OS. But included in the high price and in many cases lower
performance, is the software with it's 'Copyright' protected
interface. One could say advance the Amiga or Atari 68k based
machines as has 'graphics/memory/CPU' to support such a counter
revolution. But as usual our Blue suited friends who buy 'massive'
quantities of machines will still go for Eve's Disease, or more
likely the other big initials set.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
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Subject: Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers
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Date: 29 Apr 91 23:27:24 GMT
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