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In article <BszGGz.60p@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>... but any executive worth their salt would at least get some
>information about a group, however small, that is taking political
>action against their organization.  They may have taken a brief look
>and decided that the LPF wasn't a threat, but it's practically
>impossible that they are blind to the _existence_ of the LPF and FSF.
>Only IBM could be _that_ moronic.  8-)

(Stupid fucking smiley faces.)  Perhaps you meant that in jest, but
(as I said before on another topic) we're not stupid, and neither is
IBM.  Neither is Apple.  Neither is Intel.  Neither is Microsoft.  You
should never assume that "we're <better>, therefore we're smarter."
For <better> subsititute "morally superior", "older", "younger",
"sexier", what have you.

I see similar wrong-thinking applied to the Mac user interface --
because of Apple's allegedly hateful policies, some people convince
themselves that there isn't anything special about the Apple user
interface ("because, after all, they just copied it from Xerox, didn't
they?").  In fact (having used a couple of the Xerox UIs and read
about some others) it is a definite improvement for most people
(especially those who haven't spent the last 10 years training their
fingers to do emacs meta-control-coke-bottle silliness).  Whether or
not those improvements are entitled to the protection Apple sought for
them is another question.

David Chase
Sun