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From: jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.010630.25513@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:06:30 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.230616.1544@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>I also DARE Apple to play fair and just, and stop trying to sue other
>companies just because they are competing(GUI wise) or to put excessive
>restrictions on their ROMs.

Whether or not Apple owns the rights to the various GUI concepts over which
they are litigating, and whether or not it is legitimate to even claim
ownership of such things, is definitely debatable, but Apple's ownership of
and rights to their ROMs is not.

NO MATTER WHAT, Apple's programmers wrote the code in those ROMS.  That code
is therefore APPLE'S PROPERTY and they can restrict it HOWEVER THEY DAMN WELL
PLEASE.  Whether it makes business sense to do so is up to Apple to decide.
Just because you want something belonging to someone else does not mean they
have any obligation to make it available to you under any terms.

BTW, Apple is not sueing companies like Commodore and NeXT which have
actually innovated in the design of their GUIs.  It is Microsoft Windows
which is the target, and specifically because of alleged violations of a
license agreement signed by Microsoft.  If Microsoft hadn't signed the
stupid thing, Apple might not have had a leg to stand on for this lawsuit.


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