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Subject: Re: Apple Payoff Blacklist Requested/Look and Feel of the 8010
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 13:34:50 EST
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> ha! ha! ha!
> You were kidding, right? I mean no one would be stupid enough to violently
> flame apple without knowing the facts, right? Like the fact that Xerox at
> one time owned a large portion of apple stock and was thinking of buying more?
> Like the fact that some of the people who developed the original Lisa
> interface at one time worked on the Xerox Parc project?

Who cares about who used to own whom, or who worked for whom?  Employees give
up all their patent/copyright rights to their employees anyway.  The (valid)
point is that apple is trying to own something that wasn't their idea, and
to own enhancements of that thing they didn't create.  That's just not
right, and I believe the patent law also says that enhancements are not
automatically the right of the original owner.  The problem is that apple
can bludgeon smaller companies into submission just to avoid the legal costs.
You don't have to have a legal leg to stand on to sue somebody.  So take your
own advice:

> Mellowout.

> P.S. If you are so hung up about finding someone to be angry with why
> don't you yell at addison wesley. They're charging $600 a copy for the

So add them to the list.  How does that let apple off the hook?

Let's really solve the problem: take every third lawyer out against a wall
and shoot him/her. :-)

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Chris Cullen                UUCP: {ucbvax!allegra,decvax}!encore!vaxine!cpc
Automatix, Inc.             Phone: 617-667-7900 x2066
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