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/ gnu.misc.discuss / dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) / Nov 29, 1990 /
> Early versions of the Apple Logo were repleat with Newton under the tree.
> So it does seem that they unitentionally follow the spirit of Newton.
> As their shareholders would expect them to. Doesn't really matter to them
> whether they are morally or ethically the first with GUI.

Yeah.  Blame it on shareholders.  Well, that's another argument for the
boycott: make it in the interest of the shareholders not to have
look-and-feel lawsuits done on their behalf.

> I would judge Apple's new sales figures on their own "clones" to bely the 
> success of President Stallmans sanctions & boycott against Saddam Sculley.
> I would also say it is unnoticed by them...

This is a reason to work at expanding the boycott, not one for abandoning it.

> If you really wanted to hammer them you would promote say the NeXT machine
> as the programmers machine of choice and mount your offensive in the 
> marketplace by developing the most powerful applications in existence for
> personal computing on that platform.
> Then refuse to port them to Macintosh. But port them to RS6000 running
> NextStep/GNU/Objective C.

This is part of the boycott.  It doesn't just ask people not to buy Apple
(and Ashton-Tate, and Lotus, and Xerox) products, but also not to work for
them, not to create products for them, not to Beta test them, and not to
use them.

Jacob
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