Re: "official" FSF position on apple

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From: Greg Hennessy
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:17

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In article <DREIER.92Sep15145233@lhasa.berkeley.edu>
dreier@lhasa.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes: 
#I'm still a little confused about the difference between USL and Apple.

Apple is saying, "We will sue anyone who writes code that looks like a
Mac." 

USL is saying, "We will sue anyone who distributes our code without
proper liscencing."

Understand the difference?

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