Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!emory!phssra From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: NeXT boycott--why not? (was Re: Finder Open Wish) Message-ID: <4253@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Date: 6 Aug 89 18:41:51 GMT References: <7259@microsoft.UUCP> <35921@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson) Distribution: gnu Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta Lines: 29 In article <35921@bu-cs.BU.EDU> ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes: > >On 5 Aug 89 18:29:29 GMT, ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel) said: > >E> A bit like the NeXT file system browser, which has multiple panes spanning >E> a window which descend deeper into the directory hierarchy as you move >E> to the right. This is (IMHO) a very wonderful feature of the NeXT. When the >E> NeXT first came out someone posted to the net a Mac version of this browser, >E> but apparently was contacted by NeXT and politely told to "cease and >E> desist," or more uncomfortable legalese would follow. Doesn't bode well for >E> this showing up in the Finder, but I agree, it would be nice. > >GNUrus? Here's an interesting question--does this remind you of what >Apple's been doing? Why aren't you boycotting NeXT? My recollection of this event is that there was no heavy-handedness involved; in fact, the person who wrote the Mac version of the Browser received a personal phone call from Steve Jobs, who explained the need for NeXT to have an interface that was distinguishable from Apple's. The author then voluntarily withdrew the program from distribution. The issue here wasn't the program's functionality--there have been other, similar programs available for the Mac-- but that it looked exactly like the Browser, at a time when NeXT was trying to establish its computer as something new and different. * * ** Scott Robert Anderson gatech!emoryu1!phssra * * * ** phssra@unix.cc.emory.edu phssra@emoryu1.bitnet * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *