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From: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 14 Mar 91 23:59:37 GMT
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> Color is extra for the Classic. Performance is slow. No animation or sprites.
>HD is extra.

HD is _less_ extra than for the 500.  SCSI is there. A 40 meg is $199 total for the mac.
>
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>>>Well we can just use amax and run a mac spreadsheet then :-D
>>
>>Again, at additional cost.
>Heh, so pirate it. Just kidding ;-)

Well actually this is a very serious point about the Amiga.  The main reason
"big" software developers ignore the amiga.  The Amiga has the most pirates
of any platform.  They don't pirate to "try and buy".  They just pirate.
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>>Apple is within their right (and duty) to protect the validity of their
>>copyright on look and feel.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Apple has no copyright on 'look and feel.' It's an impossible concept.
>Like copyrighting the Look-And-Feel of Mac Donalds. Burger King, 
>Hardees, Roy Rogers(bought by Hardees), etc would be out of business.
>
We'll see what the judge rules.  Paperback already lost to Lotus on look and
feel.
>Apple has the right to protect their OS code, that's it. 
>
Again, we'll see.  Anyone can write code.  It takes a little more to do it
with a good interface.  NeXT has a great interface.  They innovated,
Microsoft didn't.

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> Look. If you invented the automobile, it's perfectly ok for me
>to make a machine that performs the same functions exactly, as long
>as I don't steal your blue prints, disassemble your engine to find
>out how it works.

Cars aren't computers.

Read that out loud a few times.  Most of the work of computer programs is on 
the interface.  Ask a programmer.  This is the work that should be protected.
Most of the work of a car is engineering.  Ditto for the Mac.
>
>The only way I see Apple's claim as valid is if they:
>1) Supplied source code to Microsoft on how to implement a GUI
>2) Microsoft disassembled Apple roms, and copied the algorithms

What is the weather like on your planet?