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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: dislike of Nintendo business practices
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Date: 18 Apr 91 09:12:58 GMT
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In article <3351@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:
>unknown, if you dislike Nintendo's business practices and will not buy a
>Nintendo because of it, why do you continue to support the GS when apple also
>has the lame idea of suing everyone who wants to "emulate" their macintosh
>interface. not that it's "that" great but certainly apple can get off their
>high chairs and license the stuff.

	Apple's suit and Nintendo's business practices are completely
different matters.

	There are things that I believe that lie on both sides of the 
Apple suit issue. (By the way, I call it the "Apple" interface and think 
it'd be a cool thing if other people got into the habit! It certainly
isn't the "Mac" interface, and if enough people call it the "Apple" interface,
it might do a small bit of good)

	Even though PARC designed a lot of the interface in the first place,
Apple is the one that brought it into use, and even had legal agreements
with MicroSoft, which MicroSoft apparently has broken.

	I dunno.. Intellectual property is a very tricky issue..
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