Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Apple sues Message-ID: <8804010133.aa18174@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 1 Apr 88 06:34:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 43 "L. Brett Glass" >Don't underestimate John Sculley. In order to rise to the top of a >mature company such as Pepsi, one must almost certainly use unethical >tactics. The same kind of tactics one might use to, say, depose Steve >Jobs, bully DRI, or blackmail Microsoft. Say what? Were I a major Apple stockholder I'd have Sculley's head on a platter if he DIDN'T file suit to protect the company's interest. Whether Apple is correct or not is at least arguable and a matter for a legal verdict. If you think ordinary "hard-nosed" enterprise is "unethical" then you haven't got all your oars in the water (doomed to a life of going in circles and getting nowhere). Depose Steve Jobs? Wasn't he the fellow who took a microprocessor with a 16Mbyte address space and put it into an unexpandable 512K computer? Once again, it would have been irresponsible not to relieve Jobs of command. He'd done his inspirational bit to launch Apple, but the long run interest of the firm required a manager (when jobs left Apple stock was down to $15 -- since then, it's split 2 for 1 and is selling around 40 ). Blackmail Microsoft!! Where were you when Microsoft threatened to revoke Apple's license to use Applesoft? Bill Gates isn't a wimp; it's a fair contest. If you think DRI had a tough time, go to the library and look up the history of Lestoil (a little company that invented the first liquid household cleaner, made the product category popular, and was promptly buried and bankrupted by Proctor & Gamble). Business is no place for the faint of heart. Perhaps you'd rather the Marine Corp ?-) --------------------- Disclaimer: I like my opinions better than my employer's anyway... (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut