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From: pfr654@csc.anu.edu.au
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Subject: Re: Apple Computer wins ruling against 'Windows'
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Date: 14 Mar 91 23:12:02 GMT
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In article <46873@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
> Repost of a message posted to IBM PC groups by Marc Ries:
> From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
> Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
> 
> Apple Computer wins ruling against 'Windows'

GO APPLE!!!

I always was suspicious of Windows. I am hoping for a final ruling something 
like that of the Polaroid vs Kodak suit, where the poor suckers who have 
bought Windows to try to turn their miserable PCs into Macs are left out in 
the cold :-)

Apple Computer could, of course be really nice and allow such people to 
trade in their MS Windows for a Mac-for-Intel-processors interface, which I 
heard they were thinking of producing.

I don't care what people say about 'industry standards' and 'millions of 
copies of windows have been sold' - the fact is that it is a copy of the 
Mac interface, and Microsoft has gone too far in duplicating the 
friendliness of it (as has HP, Sun, IBM, maybe even NeXT). If they want a 
particular thing they should be willing to pay for it, or else develop a 
whole new interface (after all, the Mac interface is about 10 years old - 
surely some new ideas have surfaced in that time).
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