Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1991Jun13.104143.22909@ncsu.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 10:41:43 GMT References: <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> <4222.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <50207@ut-emx.uucp> <8613@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Jun9.184231.4007@neon.Stanford.EDU> <4300.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jun10.175239.642@neon.Stanford.EDU> <4347.tnew Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 16 jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: > >> Well, IBM just seems to want to have rights to anything and everything >> under the sun. They've already have rights to use four GUI's: Presentation > > IBM has some sort of magazine called "Think". I skimmed through a > copy today at work, and lo, there was an article discussing the > importance of IBM's "patent portfolio". We were talking about this last night, and we began to wonder if IBM's license rights included being kept informed of the latest updates. If so, what a sweet position to be in! Imagine knowing all the time everything those GUI makers are up to. Wow. regards - kevin