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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Keywords: legal stuff
Message-ID: <113294@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 89 01:45:55 GMT
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In article <1200@zygot.UUCP> john@zygot.UUCP (John Higdon) writes:
>Anyone, anywhere, at anytime is perfectly free to invent, develop,
>produce and market at a lower price a product superior to the
>Macintosh. Are you annoyed that no one has yet been able to do that
>without *stealing* critical secrets that go into the Mac?
          ^^^^^^^^           ^^^^^^^

No, he and I are annoyed that Apple is suing anyone who tries to do that
by *imitating* critical *publicly* *known* *features* of the Mac, without
regard to whether they stole anything or not.

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@sun.com