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From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness")
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Subject: Re: Windows/Mac Copyrights
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Date: 9 Apr 88 19:30:23 GMT
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Errrr, I am not one to put Apple Computer Co. on a moral pedestal,
but I ahve seen the new versions of Windows and the Presentation Manager
for the IBM...

and, to be honest, IBM did a really crummy job of covering its tracks.
It really DOES have the "look and feel" of a Mac. I mean, with the icons
and stuff, well, if I didn't know better, I would swear I was using a....

One thing is for sure. What makes a Mac a Mac is not the 68000. It's the
windowinterface. A 80286 IBM running windows, Excel, and MS-Word is so much
like a Mac doing the same thing, Apple is in danger of losing the greatest
edgeit has over the PS/2's except maybe for price.

Enough. IBM stole it fair and square. Now, I know that Apple got this stuff
originally from Xerox so their slate isn't exactly clean either, but way back
when,
Apple was a lot smaller and really went out on a financial limb to put this
out on a home computer. They did it when memory chips were too expensive to
support it
(the 128K Mac, remember?) and when IBM wouldn't have even considered such
a thing. Just like IBM never would have considered building a PC until the
Apple ][
started making big bucks with Visi-Calc. Deja vu.

Big Blue has done it again. They let a smaller company with less risk-taking
power
pioneer the new ideas, and then they step in and take over as soon as the
smaller
company prove the ideas successful. How's that for capitalism?

I don't know how much the law can do about this, but ethically, I think it
stinks.

Capt. Albatross
jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu

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disclaimer: These opinions are mine and will remain so until more intelligent
or
insightful or informed people are kind enough to show me the error of my ways.
Remember: A mind is a terrible thing to baste.