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From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy)
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-88 18:51:06 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep13.185106.14193@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SEA & I'm not happy!
References: <4574232@<KPETERSEN> <16800358@clio> <925@psu-cs.UUCP> <8996@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy)

In article <8996@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>  I am not including any of the previous messages, but I will quickly 
>summarize them:
>  1) SEA sued PKARC for the use of SEA's trademark "ARC".
>  2) SEA won.
>  3) SEA should not be allowed to win.
> 
>  This problem is also happening in the battle of Apple vs Microsoft Windows.
>  I do not see the conclusion of either of these battles (Apple is going to
>win by out-legalizing Microsoft) as good for the computer industry, regardless
>of the computer.

> blah. blah. blah.

   Au contraire, mon ami.  It IS good for the industry (software, that is).
How would YOU like it if YOU wrote a new program which revolutionalizes the
way people think about computers, and everyone else started copying you?

   Unless you are a complete altruist, and have no capitalistic tendencies, in
which case you wouldn't be a true red-white-and-blue American, you wouldn't
like it either.  I know I'm treading on a few toes, but give it some thought --
it's true.

   Apple will probably (I have NO inside knowledge) license the right to other
software vendors (Microsoft, HP, etc) to have a desktop similar to theirs.

   As a software author, I know that I wouldn't want others profiting from my
ideas, without giving me a piece of the pie. ;->

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Disclaimer: I'm just an undergrad.
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