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From: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Summary: it's already happening somewhere else...
Keywords: legal stuff
Message-ID: <2042@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 04:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Followup-To: comp.
Organization: A Box in the Basement, Kitchener, ON
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*Apple, in the throes of a violent renaissance, is trying to through some 
*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......

Just watch the battle between Ashton-Tate and Fox Software. They're already
starting to fight this same kind of battle - the older, technologically less
advanced A-T going after the better, stronger, faster (albeit younger and not
quite as big) Fox software - except that Fox SW isn't laying over and dying -
they're going head-to-head with A-T on this.

Of course the user community has a vote in this too. The SEA vs. PKWARE
lawsuit (look-and-feel was an "issue" there too - SEA threatened to sue PKWARE
over that, and also the matter that they had supposedly the trade-mark on the
word "ARC") may have gotten Phil Katz to stop making ARC format compatable 
software, nobody'll use SEA's stuff for backup any more!


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