Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!isishq!Geoffrey_Welsh
From: Geoffrey_Welsh@isishq.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <4.224F2D52@isishq.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 18:37:01 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 221/162 - ISIS International, Waterloo ON
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 > From: zach@mruxb.UUCP (J Z Shoher)
 > Date: 25 Mar 88 14:29:49 GMT
 > Message-ID: <612@mruxb.UUCP>
 > since graphic interface technology would be left in the
 > hands of a company which seems to understand only the word
 > "proprietary".
 
   It's all well and good to attack Apple for its attempt to protect 

its "proprietary" designs.
 
   Have we forgotten the fun clonemakers had trying to come up with 

something compatible to IBM's "proprietary" BIOS?
 
   Are you in the mainframe world not aware of the ferocity with which 

IBM has defended the "proprietary" nature of its systems software in 
an attempt to keep third parties from developing performance-boosting 
software?
 
   Has no one noticed the way IBM suggested that PS/2 technology was 

"proprietary", in the hopes that clonemakers could be kept out of the 

field?
 
   Hey, Apple may not be right, but they haven't invented the game. 

They're just learning to act like the Incredibly Big Machine Company.
 
   Geoff ( [uunet]!watmath!isishq!171!izot )

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