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From: fry@brauer.harvard.edu (Zippy)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 19 Dec 89 13:38:37 GMT
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In article <7777@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> wg@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Bill Gieske) writes:
>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.

What kind of intelligence is it that is proud of being able to
use a command line interface rather than a graphic-based one?
Do you seriously consider this some sort of badge of honor?
How threatened you must feel by those that can use both...

>
>>   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.

My, you ARE smart...

>>   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.

Perhaps your own company, the phone company, should have aimed for
telephone systems that used 39 wires connected to switch boxes
in every home.  That way only intelligent people could use
phones, and you'd feel much better.

>
>>   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.

Then what are you defending and why?

--------

Please ask yourself a question:  if the Mac interface is so
bad, insulting and inefficient, why is everyone falling all
over themselves to make a functional copy for their systems?
Somebody must be buying it.

Thank you for a most insulting and immature posting...

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
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