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> 
> The October 7 issue of Infoworld carries an article on the Apple-DRI affair
> which notes that:
> 
>     "DRI has agreed to pay an undisclosed monetary settlement to Apple as
>     well as provide programming services for Apple at a reduced rate."
> 
> The article also notes the observation of Batteries Included's Michael
> Reichmann that:
> 
>     "Apple is going after everybody.  Commodore and Amiga, Microsoft for
>     Windows  -  even Mouse Systems for PC Paint, because it looks like 
>     MacPaint."
> 
> 
> Unless I am missing something, it appears to me that Apple is giving up on 
> attempting to compete in the American small computer market, for which it
> very obviously lacks the brains and talent, and simply intends to survive
> by preying upon and extorting money from companies such as Atari and Commodore
> which have no such lack.
> 
> THE 64,000 DOLLAR QUESTION:  Is anybody from Xerox reading this?  I would, upon
> recieving a request from an official representative of Xerox, gladly donate $25
> to a fund to be used for the purpose of suing Apple for their flagrant copying
> of the "look and feel" of the 8010 Star.  I could very easily justify such a
> donation as an investment in the American free-enterprise system.  

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If memory serves me right, in the final days of the old Atari, they spent
more time sueing (suing?) companies than anything else. Maybe its a kinda
final gasp....

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