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Article #74494Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers
From: John Clark
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 23:27
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,61ae69d3e56a37be,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-30 06:02:34 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!unidui!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!jclark From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Please don't feed Apple's lawyers Message-ID: <18809@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 23:27:24 GMT References: <1991Apr25.153513.27353@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <9104290400.AA25377@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1991Apr29.181238.29784@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Distribution: gnu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 19