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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <78@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 88 02:18:01 GMT
References: <2703@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <336@upvax.UUCP>
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation
Summary: Claris

In article <336@upvax.UUCP>, stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) writes:
> Isn't Claris the name of the new company being set up to handle the software
> rights for all future Mac releases?  And isn't Claris owned by employees or
> management of Apple? (past or present)  If so, doesn't it look like the REAL
> reason for this suit is to give Claris a wide-open shot at a new market,
> namely all non-Macintosh users interested in a "point and click" interface?
> 
> Sounds like Apple is less interested in their own rights, and more interested
> in bigger profits (as though they don't make enough on their own vastly
> overpriced hardware!)...

It seems that developers are not too happy about Apple being in the software
business.  They figure that anything that has the 'made by Apple' sticker
on it has an unfair advantage.

To keep people happy, Apple decided not to publish any software (other than
system-type software).  This gave rise to Claris.  It can be argued, no doubt,
that Claris *is* Apple (at least in the beginning), but technically, Apple
is no longer in the software business.