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From: dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (0000-Tom Dixon(0000))
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Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Keywords: legal stuff
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Date: 18 Jun 89 19:04:10 GMT
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In article <736@rwing.UUCP> pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
> [ much verbiage about a earlier line of discussion removed ]
>
>Reason I'm adding my 2 cents worth - is that at least with myself,
>Apple is doing their overall reputation no good at all with this sort
>of conduct - using the courts to suppress competition from makers that
>may be less well-heeled, but turn out a product that is equal to or
>better than the original in terms of performance, and at a lower
>price....
>
>I really wonder if the founders of Apple would have done so well, if
>the market climate when they started up was like the climate Apple is
>now creating?
>
...
>-- 
>pat@rwing     ...!nwnexus!mltco!camco!happym!\      (Pat Myrto),  Seattle, WA

But the real question is why would a company think that they can 
get away with these silly strong arm tactics? 

Apple, in the throes of a violent renaissance, is trying to through some 
weight around to prove to the world that they are a big company now.
But what they don't understand is that they are pouting in a whores 
market.  There are a lot of companies who are willing to put horsepower
with connectivity on your desk.  And most of them have a pretty good
attitude about the whole thing.

If apple keeps all of this nonsense up, they will continue to spiral
lost and out of control.  They will keep trying to hold anyone up
who get anywhere close to them so that they won't have to play to in
the R&D race.  And in a little while, they will be left behind.  Some
other company will do what the original apple did.  They will be the
cute underdog and will fight apple tooth and nail until apple is weak
and weary from fighting.

Apple needs to wise up very soon.  They aren't gods.  They are just
a bunch of punks.  And we all know how popular old punks are.

Tom Dixon
uunet!pdn!dixon
AT&T Paradyne, A company I do not speak for......