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From: rehmi@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Software Piracy
Message-ID: <6447@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 10:02:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 10:02:42 1984
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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>  mprvaxa!bsmith:
>
>     Apple is fighting clone machines on every side while no-one is cloning
>  Commodore 64's.  The main reason for this is the Apple is priced much
>  higher than it has any right to be. (The development costs were probably
>  paid for by the first ten sales; the garage was paid for by the next ten)

Actually, the development costs were paid by HP... Wozniak designed the thing
for them and they didn't like it. The garage might have already been paid
for; who knows what financial state he was in?
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