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From: rar@saturn.ads.com (Bob Riemenschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Speed versus whatever (vi versus Nisus; Unix versus Macintosh)
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Date: 6 Jan 91 17:11:50 GMT
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In-Reply-To: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 5 Jan 91 21:19:03 GMT

In article <F7&0x-14@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:

   So, what would happen if a company built a computer that used Unix,
   then added a GUI comparable to that of the Macintosh, and to top it
   off, they did all the tedious user interface work for the software
   developer?

My guess is it would start selling enough to be a threat to Apple, be
sued by Apple for violating the Mac "look and feel" copyright (even if
the GUI didn't look or feel much like the Mac's), spend millions
defending itself in court, and probably go belly up as a result.

							-- rar