Re: Outlawing code disassembly

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From: Bill Davidson
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 1990 01:17

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In article <10288@chaph.usc.edu> ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>But really; are these guys stupid or something?  Apple couldn't
>have been anything today without support from a million hackers:
>setting up such a public image is commercial suicide to Apple.
>Ditto with DEC and IBM.

IBM has always had that image.  They aren't hurting.  The people who
buy IBM computers couldn't care less.  They are largely computer
illiterate.  DEC has cut into the same market.  They don't care
either.  Apple has broken in to the computer illiterate market in a big
way as well.  Computer illiterate people couldn't care less about
reverse engineering.  They just want their word processors and
spreadsheets to go fast.  Fascist?  Maybe.  Unethical?  Maybe.
Counter-productive?  Probably.  Stupid.  Not at all.

--Bill Davidson

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Subject: Re: Outlawing code disassembly
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