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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
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Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <7367@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 26 Jun 89 02:26:21 GMT
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In article <1309@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>In article <1989Jun19.175611.1956@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>...
>>One should remember that Apple may have felt constrained in what they could
>>say.  As I understand it, the courts have quite consistently held that if
>>you want your copyright or trademark to be preserved, you have to make an
>>effort to enforce it when infringements occur.  That means snarling and
>>threatening, not just saying "hey, that's not nice".
>...
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>Apple's problems are more subtle than this. Their copyrights
>and trademarks are as safe as they have every been.

	Sorry, Apple has a problem with one particular trademark:  "Apple."
You remember that company started by the Beatles?  (Did you know that Paul
McCartney was in a band before Wings?)  They came to an agreement that if
Apple Computer stayed out of the music business they could use the name "Apple."
Well, with the inclusion of the sound chip in the IIGS (amoung other things
like the use of MIDI etc. -- I don't know the exact details but you get the
point), Apple (the record comany) has opened proceedings against Apple (the
computer company).

	Even if this turns out to be urban folklore, I find the entire concept
most amusing.  X-)

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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In capitalism, man exploits man.
In communism, it's the other way around.

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problems.

>what they are worried about are *trade secrets*.  My understanding
>is that one reason Macs are (were) so hard to clone is that no one but
>Apple knows (knew) the full specification of the Mac ROM. Last month
>this specification was a trade secret. Today?
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>Carl Kadie
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>ARPA:  kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu