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From: hagan@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: McCLones
Message-ID: <12650.27ce6376@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 14:21:42 GMT
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soory about the previous post w/o a subject, a telnet burp 
posted it before i was done writing/revising.

anyway, my points are:

   with the NuteK clones of apple rom, and other soon to follow, 
instead of litigating this to death, apple could take a proactive stance,
and licence THEIR rom instead. for the extra $$, i am sure that peole
would much rather have an actual mac rom than a clone of the rom, in
their mac clone. if apple litigates the rom cloners to death, they may
end up causing more harm than good in people's opinion of apple. i for
one feel that the mac, more than any other computer could do phenomonally
well IF there was competetive pricing against the IBM pc's. apple
could stand to profit by being the recipients of the royualties on the
ROM and OS. as is, sooner or later they wont be able to win a lawsuit against
a cloner, and then they will stand to lose much more.

opinions....flames?

these are just my opinions --- nobody has brainwashed me..YET

-- craig hagan  (hagan@ecs.umass.edu)   "/** user wearing asbestos suit
                                             to ward of flames          **/