Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2- Message-ID: <21861@usc.edu> Date: 19 Dec 89 03:57:18 GMT References: <21846@usc.edu> <12249@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: USC Lines: 18 In article <12249@cbnewse.ATT.COM> macduff@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Roger R. Espinosa) writes: >But, anyway, ignoring that, saying that yes, he could actually *STEEL* >employees (making it *only* Apple's fault...), Jobs, when he walked off to >do NeXT, *STOLE* Macintosh developers from Apple. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >I guess some habits are hard to break. Looks like that WonderMachine everybody >is drooling over is as morally bankrupt as the Macintosh. That's absolutely true. In fact Apple sued Steve over it and refrained from pursuing the lawsuit after an agreement of swapping of technology, plus the assurance that no more people would be taken from Apple. I believe that Apple has access to NeXT trade secrets, to make sure that none of *their* *proprietary* (ha, ha :-) technologies are stolen. -- Marco -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Xerox sues somebody for copying?" -- David Letterman -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=