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From: laba-4an@web4e.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
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Date: 23 Mar 88 17:58:50 GMT
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In article <332@ardent.UUCP> rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
>[...]developers who have had
>the audacity to take programs that made them some money running on
>Macs, and ported them to other environments hoping to make a few
>extra bucks on their original development efforts (perhaps reusing
>a goodly portion of the source code[...]

followed by

>This may be just the beginning.  Users gonna lose a lot because of stifling
>of creativity, I think [...]

If they have already written the programs, and are merely re-writing them
for a different system, how will that stifle creativity?

How will Apple protecting itself from two other companies stifle programmers?

It seems to me that any programmer who re-writes the Mac interface on a
new computer system JUST to be creative has a few problems.  If I wanted
to port a Mac program to a Sun, I would use the X toolkit, not attempt
to re-create the Macintosh "look-and-feel".

-- 
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