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From: merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The Lawsuit, Standardization, and Whiny DOS Users...
Message-ID: <8807@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 2 May 88 14:49:23 GMT
References: <8685@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> <5823@well.UUCP> <10600@steinmetz.ge.com> <5836@well.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY
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Summary: Nah.  Can't let this go by...

In article <5836@well.UUCP>, L. Brett Glass writes:
> [...] For me, the important thing is that I have
> an architecture which is multiple-sourced, reasonably priced,
> able to run the largest base of professional software in the
> world, and not made by a company which uses litigation as a
> "competitive" tactic -- and thus hurts the microcomputer community
> as a whole) when it is no longer able to keep up with the pack
> through innovation.

IBM doesn't use litigation as a competitive tactic.  They use FEAR of
litigation as a competitive tactic.  Note that Dell and Tandy have LICENSED
the use of Micro-Channel Architecture (MCA) from IBM, because IBM has
threatened to sue anyone who sells one without getting it licensed.  They've
also threatened to sue anyone who creates as PS/2 clone without their
permission.

IBM is not famous for it's love of free market competition.
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"Grab it like you want it..."         Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)