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From: tmurphy%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Apple's FCC request
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.210759.4946@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 03:07:58 GMT
References: <689.security.eff@pro-angmar> <1991Apr9.231716.20506@hellgate.utah.edu> <1991Apr10.213331.21441@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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In article <1991Apr10.213331.21441@rodan.acs.syr.edu> dbarberi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Barberi) writes:
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>What lawsuits??  Fill us in, please.
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I speak of the lawsuits against micro-soft and HP. Though not the
David versus Goliath type thing that went on with Lotus and PaperBack
software, this suit has far reaching implications for all programmers.
I suggest the articles in communications of the acm from a few months
back there is also a similar article in Dr.Dobbs from march 1990.  As
a soon to graduate student and an independent developer I think that
things could get out of hand soon and it worries me....kind of a big
fish swallows all the little fish scenario.  Yes, this may not be the
forum for this discussion and it is true that this is a whole new
venture for apple but I think pressure should be applied any way it
can.

murph