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From: brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Summary: Fairness?
Message-ID: <1106@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 05:15:57 GMT
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In article <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y) writes:
>   This world is unfair!  
> 
> Why hasn't anyone sue the big blue for
> - giving user the *ugly*, *unfriendly* text based interface from hell?
> - shamelessly cheat the users for a actually not so good computer?
> - rudely made many users' life miserable and waster users' time?
>
IBM may have thoroughly unremarkable products, but that is not the basis
of a suit.  If people need certain requirements, and an IBM product
doesn't have them, but still people buy it, then they are idiots.  There
is no further issue.

IBM is in deep trouble as we speak.  The Third Reich is crumbling...

   
>   It is a fact that the standard interface of windows, pull down menus,
> make things look good and friendly.
>
It depends on how well windows, etc. are used.   Too much of that silly
business, and it loses its advantages.
 
>   It is a fact that NuBus, SCSI, AppleTalk, 68xxx chip is superior than 
> EISA/MCA, ESDI, nothing standard or build in, 80xxx(not include 80486).
>
680x0 superior to 80x86?  In what ways, Mr. Computer Engineer?
In some ways, yes, in others, no.  "fact"?

 
>   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.

Yeah, like everytime the Mac says something like:

		Macintosh cannot read this disk


			________
		       |   OK   |
                        ~~~~~~~~ 

Yeah, everybody knows just exactly was has gone wrong here, huh?
Remember, SE stands for System Error.

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are advantageous in many, but not all
aspects.  Apple's implementation of GUI's is far, far from perfect.




>   But the company that took the *risk* to provide the user *more* than
> the other impundent company is being "punished".  What is fairness?
> What is the good judgement?  Where are the users?
>
Apple sued Microsoft because of "Look and Feel" arguments.  What's the diff?
Sauce for the goose.

 
>   If *some* people would not be so close minded, will the *rest of general*
> users having to learn the terrible interface like the DOS?
DOS does "inhale with great force," but stating that the 680x0 is  
superior is nonsense, and not open minded.



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