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From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 21 Dec 89 20:25:30 GMT
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From article <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, by kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y):
> In article <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>>
>>I wouldn't be surprised if all they were after is to punish impudent
>>Apple (<-- scumbags from hell). 
>>--
> 
>   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?

( [sic]s mercifully omitted, due to the benevolence of the season)

The unfriendly text interface was around long before Big Blue got into
micros.  Apple is as good at overpricing as IBM (possibly even better,
since there are no Mac clones).  And the command-line interface does have
its advantages, sometimes.

Read my lips:  BOTH THE MAC AND UNIX-STYLE INTERFACES HAVE THEIR PROPER
USES, IMPROPER USES, ADVANTAGES, AND DISADVANTAGES.  Neither you nor I is
qualified to say which is "better" for everyone.

>   It is a fact that the standard interface of windows, pull down menus,
> make things look good and friendly.
>   It is a fact that NuBus, SCSI, AppleTalk, 68xxx chip is superior than 
> {...}
>   It is a fact that a user would need to buy a book other than just the
> {...}

It is a fact that opinions can't be facts.  Get your facts straight.

>   If *some* people would not be so close minded, will the *rest of general*

You're as closed-minded as anyone I've heard in a long time.

>   Wouldn't the Xmas be merrier if.....

... bigoted people like yourself kept your views in alt.flame.  Either that,
or in comp.sys.mac where everyone will agree with you wholeheartedly.  I
agree that for the majority of applications, the Mac is viable (and in many
cases, such as word processing and desktop publishing, vastly superior).  
I don't agree that I can push my views on everyone, and force EVERYONE to
use the computers I like to use.

May Santa leave a lump of coal in your your SuperDrive.  Hmph.
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