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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Official legal stuff & all that ...
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Date: 28 Jun 89 23:46:49 GMT
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In article <142@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au> U5569462@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au (DAVID CLUNIE) writes:
>The recent heated discussion concerning the alleged distribution of
>source code to some part of the Macintosh ROM set, raises an interesting
>question. Why has no one cloned the Macintosh ROM's ?
>
[stuff deleted about how all us Mac programmers should work on cloning Mac ROMs
 so that this PC guy can have his cake and eat it too]

>Beats wasting your time writing yet another file compression program, or
>icon editor, or animation program, etc. There are already plenty of those.

But it does not beat going out there and comming up with somthing better
than a Mac does it?  Why waste all that time, energy, and talent on
cloning something? That's about as glamorous and rewarding as being in a cover
band (for you non-musicians, that's a band that plays only other artists
material).  I'd rather do what Jobs did and come up with a new machine that
IMPROVES on existing technolgy rather than simply cloning it.

Don't be a boob.  Bring something new into the world.

I feel better now.

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Have a day. :^|
Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)