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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <427@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 23 Jun 89 15:12:28 GMT
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In article <9606@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes:

>Apple _should_ become a software company and stop gouging the user for
>"doggone bland" hardware!
>
>rich


Your are confused.  Apple *is* a software company.  There is nothing
particularly interesting about their hardware, it is their system
software that is valuable.  The clever thing about how they package
their software is that they use a hardware key for copy
protection--the computer and its ROMs--and know one seems to notice
it.

They also sell different versions of the hardware key so the user can
get more out of the software by buying an expensive key (a Macintosh
IIx) or less out of the software by buying an inexpensive key (the
Macintosh Plus).

I personally wish Apple would get back *into* the hardware business.

Kent Borg
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