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From: andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman)
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Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Summary: how did they get their start?
Message-ID: <11685@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 23 Jun 89 02:47:18 GMT
References: <2073@astroatc.UUCP> <2928@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <841@hydra.gatech.EDU> <736@rwing.UUCP> <1200@zygot.UUCP>
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Reply-To: andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman)
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In-reply-to: john@zygot.UUCP (John Higdon)

In article <1200@zygot.UUCP>, john@zygot (John Higdon) writes:
>In article <736@rwing.UUCP>, pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
>> 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?
>
>By doing what? Protecting what is rightfully theirs? Or do you feel
>that all trade secrets should just be public domain and no one has a
>right, regardless of development cost, to make money with them?

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.
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