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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: MacApp Licensing Fee
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Date: Tue, 12-May-87 23:57:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 12 23:57:37 1987
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In tribute to...

    The on-going saga of 
	"I thought of it (maybe not first), 
	 You pay for it, and will do so for the rest of my natural life "

Joel West writes...
> If there were a competing product to MacApp without royalties, I'd be
> interested, but right now it offers unique advantages.

  Thats Funny, Think and Xerox could have said something similar about their 
products (while they were still unique - in Xerox's case).  Oh, sorry, 
I forgot that *ALL* the Dolphin and Dorado (not to mention SmallTalk) creators
were/are employed by Apple at some stage or another :-].  Thus Apple owns their
thoughts, even though some of them don't work there any more.  OK so Xerox has
a finger in Apple's pie, so what?
  All credit to Apple for producing a beautiful series of machines.
  All credit to Apple for producing a wonderful user interface.
  All credit to Apple for Challenging the IBM Monopoly.
  What do they want to be now? A Monopoly?  Or "Thought Police?"

Read your own Technical Notes, Apple!

    A Compiler is a compiler! 
    Homage is paid since the only machines that MacApp (currently) works on 
	are Apples.  
    So why the Royalty? 
    No excuses, No BS!


Paul Menon.

    Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
    124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
 
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