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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Boycott the Beatles??? (was Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include
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Date: 6 Nov 90 01:10:07 GMT
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Lotus Improv)
Date:  5 NOV 90 19:00:36    
Organization:  University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
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Gee, I wonder if all you anti-Lotus people are going to stop listening to your
Beatle's albums too?

Yep, the Beatles, a.k.a. Apple Corps, are suing Apple Computer over copyright
infringment with the name Apple.  Yep, apparently Mr. Jobs signed a secret
agreement with the Fab Four that Apple could use the Apple name as long as they
don't get involved with music.  Apple Corps maintain that such Apple produces
such as a MIDI interface, sound chips for the Macs, and the Apple CD ROM reader
violate this agreement.

Now they want Apple to either stop their "music-making" or change their name. 
Now whatever you think of Apple (and remember, it was Steve who was in charge
at that time), you have to admit that this is fairly bogus.  Either no one --
ever -- can use the word "Apple" in anything remotely connected to music (CD
ROM readers??), or else Apple must stop providing Mac users with useful
products.

Unless you anti-Lotus folk engage in some serious moral-relativism (e.g. "Apple
is bad, so they deserve whatever they get; we only believe in copyright
liberalism with "good" companies"), then I suspect that you will have to
boycott all Beatles records on your shelves.

( * BTW, there is a big :-> :-> :-> implied here. *)

Robert

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