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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT APPLE
Message-ID: <1983@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 21:43:46 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <663@csm9a.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> In article <292@unicom.UUCP>, daniel@unicom.UUCP (Dan Smith, not your average Lithuanian...) writes:
> > 
> > 	You know, it might not be such a bad idea for users/developers to
> > let Apple know, if only for a day, how they feel about this. Perhaps we
> > should Boycott Apple for one day - don't buy Apple products, don't develop
> > Apple Software/Hardware, as a protest. Is April 1 too early for this?
> > It's an appropriate day to show Apple that they are being foolish! I feel
> > this is a very important topic to explore, hence the cross posting. It's
> > important that Apple feel the response of the user community.
> > 
> > dan smith, island graphics, marin co, ca|"A womp ba ba lu ba, a womp bam boom!"
> 
> Better yet boycott Apple all together!!!
> 
> In the past I have always presented the MAC to certain students as an 
> alternative to the PC environment.  I will not be able to do so in the
> future.  I could not reccommend a system marketed by pirates that not
> only steal other developers ideas and market them as their own but use
> harassment to prohibit free enterprise!
> 
> Buying an APPLE is UN-AMERICAN!
> 
>     Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center
          ^^^^^

Have you considered changing your last name in protest? :-)

Clayton E. Cramer