Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:46381 comp.sys.ibm.pc:40706 comp.sys.mac:45057 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!convex!iex!ntvax!jbeard From: jbeard@ntvax.uucp (Jeff Beardsley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!! Message-ID: <1989Dec22.174056.27160@ntvax.uucp> Date: 22 Dec 89 17:40:56 GMT References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: jbeard@ntvax.UUCP (Jeff Beardsley) Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 69 In article <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> kuo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (KUO ANDY Y) writes: >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? At the time, DOS was NOT the (*ugly*, *unfriendly*) interface from hell, it was actually a step foreward in usability (look at the APPLE user interface from that time, IT SUCKed). IBM was merely continuing in the same vein EVERYBODY ELSE was using, and adding a little of UNIX to make it more useable. > It is a fact that the standard interface of windows, pull down menus, >make things look good and friendly. Agreed, but your grammar stinks. > 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). 1) Ok, but NuBus, SCSI, etc are NEWER. It is also true that outdoing the *PAST* is *ALOT* easier that outdoing the *FUTURE*. 2) Your Grammar still sucks. > 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. Same argument as above, but I must admit your grammar is a little better. > 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? What risk? If it is *OBVIOUS* that the window interface is so much better than the command line, than *EVERYBODY* who saw the thing would say "wow, I really need that". No Risk Involved. Apple merely took the Idea they got from Xerox, and marketed it. Xerox had no qualms about it, so Apple marketed it as THEIR OWN. No Arguments yet from Xerox, but Now Apple sues MicroSoft for getting too close to their adopted baby, and XEROX Sues them for being such weenies about the whole thing. POETIC JUCTICE! > If Apple never had continued the work from the star project, will we >users see the windowing interface so early? No Argument, BUT they should not try to stifle everybody else, LIKE THEY ARE DOING. (Looks like you went back to 3rd grade in this part) > If *some* people would not be so close minded, will the *rest of general* >users having to learn the terrible interface like the DOS? If *some* people were not so close minded, and payed more attention to the facts (as well as to their bad grammar), the *rest* of the general populace could get on with life. I Wish XEROX Good luck in punishing Apple. -- ----- --------------------- ----- Any similarity between my opinions and the opinion of any other person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.