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From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman Gall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Apple gets favorable ruling
Keywords: Apple vs. Microsoft
Message-ID: <1492@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 14:05:46 GMT
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Reply-To: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall)
Organization: York U. Department of Philosophy; Toronto, Canada
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garison@prism.TMC.COM (Gary Piatt) writes:
>Apple is suing Microsoft solely for the public attention (in my own
>opinion).  Consider this:  Apple makes Macintoshes, Mac II's, etc;
>MS-Windows was written for PC's.  Where's the competition?  Apple is
>not losing any business to Microsoft.  In fact, it could be argued that
>Apple gets free advertising evertime someone uses Windows; sooner or
>later, a Windows user could be expected to purchase a Mac... going to
>the horse's, uh, mouth, as it were.

Boy, you can sure tell YOU haven't worked in an IBM-only shop.  If The
'suits' in your MIS or ACS dept. can say 'You don;t need mAcs, you
have PCs with MS-Windows", you are screwed, blued, and Tattooed, and
there's little you can do about it.  The users have no recourse and
that's how Apple loses ground to the competition.  If, on the other
hand, the only place to get the Mac-ish interface is from Apple, then
the users can complain hard and long, and the MIS/ACS peple have to
capitulate eventually (angry mob with lit tapers entering the computer
room...)

IBM... idiots bought me...

-- nrg