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From: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <225@6sigma.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 17:36:20 GMT
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Organization: 6 Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <11685@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
|Ah, but look at where Apple came from, and you will see that their
|history just screams out for a nice tidy theft.  All the profiles on
|Jobs and Wozniak used to point out that they started out as
|blue-boxers.  The fancy name for what such people do is toll fraud.
|The plain and simple truth is that they saved quite a bit of money by
|stealing services from my employer.  What goes around comes around.

Maybe I'm being particularly stupid today, but how does the alleged toll
fraud by two people who haven't been associated with Apple for some time
make it right for everyone else to steal Apple's trade secrets, source code,
whatever?
-- 
Brian L. Matthews +1 206 854 6578