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From: wg@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Bill Gieske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <7777@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 15:46:20 GMT
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In article <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y) writes:
>   It is a fact that the standard interface of windows, pull down menus,
> make things look good and friendly.

If you need a computer to hold your hand...  If you're smart, all that shit
gets in the way.

>   It is a fact that a user would need to buy a book other than just the
> manual for a DOS software, while Mac users don't even have to look at
> the manual and learn things fast.

I've never had to buy a book; the manual was MORE than enough.

>   But the company that took the *risk* to provide the user *more* than
> the other impundent company is being "punished".

BULLSHIT!  There is no risk in stealing ideas, other than in being caught.
And they bastardized the idea with things like single button mice, because 
they deemed point-and-click eacy to market, especially when I didn't have to
decide which button to click.  That gives you an idea of the intelligence
level they aimed for.

>   If *some* people would not be so close minded...

I have YET to meet an open-minded Apple owner.  Every one I've met seems 
hell-bent on convincing me their piece of shit doesn't stink.  Great things
need no defense - they stand on their own merits.