Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:4772 comp.sys.ibm.pc:13493 comp.windows.misc:359 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-emx!emp From: emp@ut-emx.UUCP (naDev~tlhIngan~putulu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: BOYCOTT APPLE Message-ID: <1298@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 21 Mar 88 23:37:12 GMT References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <2112@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 25 Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit Summary: Point, Click, and >BANG< In article <2112@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes: > > I say that we should help Apple get a monopoly on Mac interface copies. > The fewer companies that base computer OS's on this the better. > > Why? We do not live in a point and click universe! > ...ah, but our wild west ancestors did! ...does that mean that Apple's innovative point & click method is in reality a throwback to simpler times when a man solved his problems by blowing them away? ...hey, before you groan, remember that there IS a lasso icon that is commonly used! Big Tex OM Discalmer: Zane Grey's new novel: "Ambush at Silicon Valley" - the story of a man on a black Macintosh who rides into a town with no OS and attempts to tame it...even if he must kill his mentor, Mr. Xerox, and his rival, Eyebeem Doss, to do so.