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From: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trial by JURY
Message-ID: <1204@zen.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 23:30:00 GMT
References: <2722@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <1886@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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Summary: countersuit

In article <1886@rtech.UUCP> brent@rtech.UUCP (Brent Williams) writes:
>From article <2722@tekigm2.TEK.COM>, by timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM
> (Timothy D Margeson):
>> Now, add to this trial by jury a small, helpless company like Apple, being
>				    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	Come on. The quarter just ended, apple announced  $1 billion in revenue.
>	I bet Hewlett Packard is only about $6-8 billion per year, not
>	that much bigger than Apple. Also, microsoft only about $300 million.
>	They might try to capitalize on the "2 guys in a garage image"
>	but an attorney for the other guys would have no trouble pulling this 
>	apart.

In fact, since Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were the original Silicon
Valley "two guys in a garage" (now a museum), maybe HP could countersue
Apple for ripping off how they got started.

Then again, I think HP have more decency than to try.


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Frank Wales, Development Engineer,    [frank@zen.uucp<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank]
Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x220