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From: kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y)
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Subject: Copy rights?(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 18 Dec 89 06:25:11 GMT
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In article <1989Dec17.223025.6618@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>>  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.
>
>	Granted.  This is precisely what pisses me off about Apple: a
>	GUI is wonderful, "but you MUST buy one of OUR machines to use it.
>	If you buy someone elses machine we expect a small royalty
>	payment."  On another note, I don't know how accurate this
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>	(second-hand) information is, but I've been told that Apple
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>	recently tried to organize a consortium of companies that would
>	agree to stop offering educational discounts!  Sliiimmmeeeeyyyy!

[flame on]

  Maybe I should have sent this article via e-mail, but it is right
if someone says anything that he is not sure of.  Spreading rumors
that one is not sure of only tells that he is irresponsible!

[flame off]

  I am not an expert in the copy rights area.  But moral tells me that
it is about intellectual property, it is private and the owner has the
right to decide whatever he wishes to do with it.

  This is a free country.  The issue is regarding the argument between
the owners on this "property".  Even if you don't like it, too bad, you
can't intefere with it.

  In other words, if Apple would price a Mac+ at the level of a Cray,
it is Apple's business, none of yours. And if you think Apple's is better,
you have to pay for the investment and the man power that Apple have
invested.

  Then again, if you want to stick with your non-standard interface,
no one is preventing you from doing it :-)