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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 12:50:37 EDT
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[ sacrifice to line eater bug -- patent pending ]

Yesterday I got a first hand example of why Apple is upset about
GEM.  I was out at one of the national computer chain's store 
here in town, and found all the Macintosh software shoved in 
with the IBM versions of GEM software.  

I went to 3 other stores, where they barely seemed to have heard
of the Macintosh (but were happy to sell me all the copies of
1-2-3 I could handle).

While they may not be justified in claiming the "look" as a 
thing which can be owned (tho there *is* some legal precedent for 
such claims), they are certainly justified in
worrying about people thinking it runs on a Macintosh.
Every week I talk to people who want to know if you can put
a Macintosh disk into an Apple II, or if their old Commodore
software can work on an IBM PC.  
-- 
"PCs do not fit comfortably in the DEC computing environment".
		-- from an ad for "Logicraft" in Digital Review
Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706
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