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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: A2R&D vs. Apple
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Date: 16 Apr 91 12:33:24 GMT
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>>Anyone who cares what Apple is trying to do with their Look & Feel lawsuits
>>should forbear from purchasing any more Apple equipment.  Selling what you
>>have and dropping software development of Apple-specific programs would be
>>excellent steps.
>>
>
>One question - why?  Dropping software development would be the WORST thing
>any machine user could do, especially if they have had several years of
>programming experience.

Small word time.

Apple is suing Microsoft because MS Windows "looks" like Apple software.
Some people think this is bad, because it might mean that any programmer
with a GUI would have to send a royalty check to Apple.

(More fundamentally, it encourages meaningless differentiation of interfaces,
making it more difficult for users to switch from platform to platform.)

The people who think Apple's suit is bad would like to HURT Apple.  Not buying
Apple's products and not developing software for Apple products would
be one way of doing that.

(Being a Mac developer myself, I would have to note that Apple has done more
to discourage small software developers than the FSF will ever be able to do.)
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner