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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT APPLE
Message-ID: <663@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 19:18:27 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP>
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Lines: 37
Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit
Summary: No more apple a day!

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!!!

Years ago they forced DRI to destroy GEM, which was my favorite operating
environment for the PC, using the same logic of "it's ours cause we stole
it first!".  Now that windows and the Presentation Manager have become a
viable market their pulling the same charade.  Fortunately Microsoft is
in a much better position to legally fight this harassent than DRI ever
was!

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
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