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From: ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <28800.26928a4e@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 00:31:10 GMT
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In article <2986@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
> sobiloff@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu (Chrome Cboy) writes:
> 
>>The MacFans out in net.land use the word Macintosh to describe the proper way
>>of maintaining consistency and ease-of-use in an interface. So, when they (and
>>I) say that Windows isn't Mac-like, what they are saying is that the
>>level of consistency and ease-of-use is not up to the Macintosh's levels.
> 
> So Apple has a copyright on consistency and ease-of-use. I am impressed.
> 

No copyright- but a monopoly so far...

> Wolfgang Strobl
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