Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: McCLones Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 06:47:21 GMT References: <12650.27ce6376@ecs.umass.edu> <1991Mar8.003255.22933@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu's message of 8 Mar 91 00:32:55 GMT In article <1991Mar8.003255.22933@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes: Before I buy a Mac clone, I'll probably do one of (a) buy a Mac III, (b) buy a NeXT (boos and hisses from the crowd), or (c) give up computers altogether. I don't want no stinkin clones. If your worried Hear, hear! Despite the myriad benefits of competition, there comes a time when the stability of a pseudo-monopoly is a truly wondeful blessing. (As opposed to a true monopoly--compare today's AT&T with the old one. :-) -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \============================================================================/