Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdhup!inferno!shane From: shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: A sad day... Message-ID: <1991Mar12.145323.27333@inferno.peri.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 14:53:23 GMT References: Organization: Periphonics Corp. Lines: 30 > johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes: > >> In article <13151@helios.TAMU.EDU>, mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu >> (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes... >> >I just read that thing about the case between Apple and Microsoft. >> >I hope the hell Apple doesn't win this. Who uses Macs anyway?? {:-< >> >People that are afraid of computers!! >> >> Who uses Windows? People who are afraid of Macintoshes? >> >> >PS-You know Apple is losing business to a superior product when they start >> > suing people! >> >> Last time I checked, Apple had a 1-3 month backlog of orders across >> its product line. Sounds like they are doing just fine. Frankly, >> I can't understand why Microsoft expects to use Apple-developed ideas >> without paying for them. When I want to use DOS on a Mac, the cost >> of the SoftPC emulator includes LICENSE fees for Microsoft. Here we go again... *Apple-developed ideas* ??? I think Xerox at PARC would have a few things to say about that. As for the Apple backlog, you don't think that the new *low priced* classic line which was introduced in response to sluggish sales had anything to do with that, do you? -- Shane Bouslough | ...!rutgers!mcdhup!inferno!shane Periphonics Corp. | 516-467-0500 4000 Veterans Hwy. | "I'm sure it's a hardware problem or a software problem" Bohemia, NY 11716 | - K. Rivalsi