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From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <183@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 04:12:06 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu| <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <2555@draken.nada.kth.se>
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In article <2555@draken.nada.kth.se|, perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes:
| In article <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
| >gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
| >
| >I wouldn't be surprised if all they were after is to punish impudent
| >Apple (<-- scumbags from hell). 
| >--
| 
| Considering many of us are using ethernet, which comes mostly from Xerox,
| one might say this seems probable. And, quite frankly, Apple deserves it.
| One wonders if the reason they haven't sued Atari and Commodore yet is that
| they consider their offers not being office computer threats. What will then
| happen when Apple again sells machines for home use ( some day ) ?

I had wondered about Apple's reaction to Berkeley Softworks' version of
GEOS for the Apple //... I kept expecting a thunderous lawsuit, until it
occurred to me that Apple is unlikely to do anything that was contrary
to pumping up sales. Since GEOS was likely to boost the //e line, they
doubtless used that rationale to ignore it. (it would have been in
character, though, to have sued BS if an Apple version had never shown
up)
| 
| -- 
| ---
| Per Andersson
| Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
| perand@admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se 


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