Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1991Apr18.113731.16832@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <10922@uwm.edu> <1991Apr16.012744.21996@sugar.hackercorp.com> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 11:37:31 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > In article <1991Apr16.012744.21996@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Hey, DP is a great idea... but why did NeXT split the market by inventing it > over again from scratch instead of adapting and polishing NeWS? > They would have to pay royalties to Sun, a competitor? That doesn't seem to bother people like Solbourne, or in another field it doesn't bother SCO to be paying royalties to AT&T. For that matter, NeXT does that too. > It would look bad using a News since it was already beaten by X. NeWS was "beaten" by X on price. What they implemented is a subset of NeWS... this is supposed to be an advantage? > I'm sure that you could probably think of a few more. I'm trying. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .