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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <1784@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 13:34:41 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

In article ... kolding@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Koldinger) writes:
> is?).  It will set important precendents and limits for the interface
> people, much the same way that the Intel vs. NEC suit set precedents
> for uCode.  Tell me, is anyone boycotting Intel these days?  I didn't really
> think so.

The situtions are completely different. There is a huge difference between
outright copying something and reverse-engineering it (even granting that
uSoft Windows is a MacOS clone... something I am by no means claiming).

Not that sending a message to intel is a bad idea. They have done the whole
computer industry a disservice by their militant segmentism.
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