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From: blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT APPLE
Message-ID: <1602@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 02:15:48 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <663@csm9a.UUCP> <2693@calmasd.GE.COM> <5530@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
Lines: 16
Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

lets clear things up a bit..

>This was not the only predatory move made by Apple in its quest to
>protect what it "stole first." 

read "Smalltalk-80  -  bits of history, words of advice" :: 
Apple, DEC, HP and Tektronix received the right to use the Smalltalk-80 VI
in their r&d from xerox. that is, the reproduction and redistribution of the VI
(virtual image) or PORTIONS of the VI are permitted only as incorporated into a
product of these manufacturers/licensees.

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