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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Innovation (Re: Mac and Amiga)
Message-ID: <1010@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:07:14 GMT
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blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes:
>
>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.
>

God I'm sick of reading this BS.  NeXT innovated?  Apple innovated?
Commodore innovated?  You should really wake up and smell what you're
standing in.  Xerox innovated.  The rest borrowed and improved, and
that includes Microsoft.  The only thing that Apple invented is the idea
to borrow Xerox-invented ideas.  Taking others to court for doing the same
makes them look like the cheap sleaze they are.

The Amiga owners just love to dwell on the point that Apple is not taking
them to court because Commodore innovated, while Microsoft didn't.  Give
me a real big break.  The real reason is that Commodore poses zero threat
to Apple.  If and when it ever does, you just watch those lawyers getting
ready to fill their pockets.
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