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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apology to APPLE
Message-ID: <1990Feb9.020114.15756@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Feb 90 02:01:14 GMT
References: <1990Jan31.024145.1099@NCoast.ORG> <948@tahoma.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <948@tahoma.UUCP> by prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg):
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| (c'est moi:)
| > How quickly we forget.  Anyone else remember the Franklin ACE I (and the
| > lawsuit)?
| 
| Central Point (market's the Laser 128) has already gone the lawsuit route
| with Apple, AND WON!!  They reverse engineered it and did a much better job
| than the ACE.  They've been putting out the Laser for enough years now that
| I wouldn't worry about it going away.  Obviously you haven't been following
| this situation.
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How quickly we make assumptions, as well... I *am* aware of the Laser 128 and
its implications; my point about the lawsuit was that it was considered a "big
thing" (locally, at least) when it happened, but now some people "aren't aware
of any Apple clones".

++Brandon
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