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From: mdt@YAHI.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann)
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Subject: PropagandApple and other dissociations
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Date: 29 Mar 89 15:07:17 GMT
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> Apple seems to me to have supplanted IBM as the new "evil empire", they're
> also the biggest supporter of new (and open) research in the Valley right now, 
> and with the current "C/C++ ueber alles" trend, us language researchers can't
> be too choosy about corporate purity...

Will wonders never cease?  By combining truth (Apple is the new "evil
empire") with blatant falsity (Apple is biggest supporter of open
research in the Valley), the author concludes the convenient (us
researchers can't be expected to behave morally or ethically).  Apple
must be proud of this guy.

Michael