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From: brownd@agnes.uucp (David H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: GEOS/GEM (was RE: ===>GEOS HELP<=== )
Summary: who _really_ cares?
Keywords: Apple, lawsuit, GEM, OS/2
Message-ID: <7204@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 89 17:46:46 GMT
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In article <65207@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mark l dyson <dyson@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
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>Why would Apple sue over GEM, and not even bat an eye at GEOS?
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	I'm afraid that the answer is all too simple.  Although we all love
our Commodores dearly and have found all sorts of ways to make them do more
than anyone ever expected, the sad truth remains that in the "Big World" of
high-powered computing these machines are little more than toys.  So GEOS
isn't a threat to Apple's near stranglehold on the easy-to-use computer
market.  I'm not sure GEM really is, either.  OS/2 might be.

	Still, I program away, boldly mixing 6502 code with aged Microsoft
BASIC...

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