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From: davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <1093@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 3 Jul 89 19:56:35 GMT
References: <7367@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <1117@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <82626@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <82626@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander) writes:

| I think we've seen it enough in the press to believe it's real, but,
| I'd like to hear more details about the actual complaint.  Is it the
| sound chip, the MIDI interface, both, ...?

  My impression is that Apple Computer entered into an agreement with
Apple Records in which it agreed that it would not go into any part of
the music business. The funny part is that they settled rather than
fight in court because they were small and Apple Records was big.

  All this from a local radio commentary, but there would be ironic
justice if a company which has lived by litigation were to suddenly have
to give up its trademark. Perhaps they will drop computers completely
and just concentrate on their main business... litigation.

Disclamer: all my opinion and facts as I believe them to be true.
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	- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdgw1.uucp)
	GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8, KW-C206; Schenectady NY 12345