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From: jeremy@math.uic.edu (Jeremy Teitelbaum)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Advocates of NeXT and Amiga seem to me to have a common characteristic:
the willingness to take a chance on something different from the
"industry standards."  So why are these two camps bickering?  Remember
who the real enemies are:  those users who insist on inferior technology
at inflated prices because that's  "standard," and those companies
who rely more on their legal departments then their R&D departments
to hold on to market share.  How about re--directing some of the
energy currently being spent on arguments about NeXT versus Amiga
towards campaigning against look--and--feel lawsuits and repressive
patent and copyright policies?  In five years all of the
current hardware--NeXT, Amiga, Sun, IBM, Apple--will be obsolete anyway.

Jeremy Teitelbaum
Math Dept.
U. of Illinois -- Chicago
Chicago, IL 60680
312-996-2371