Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Apple Computer wins ruling against 'Windows' Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 01:52:25 GMT References: <4325@gmdzi.gmd.de> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 21 Wolfgang Strobl writes: "partially because Apple invests more into what they call "Human Interface Design" and nothing into support for cheap hardware from various sources." Sounds like a good trare-off to me. Why should Apple waste its money supporting people who are too cheap to pay for quality and instead buy inferior products? As you might guess, I think Apple is right in not making its technology as freely available as IBM has made its tech. It seems that _anyone_ can make an ibm-"compatible" machine... What does this do to both quality control and the ability to make a change that affects all the machines for the better (such as new system software :-)) -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"