allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (10/28/85)
> The visionary light has gone out of Apple. The company has become yet > another short-sighted next-quarter-oriented concern. Does Apple really believe > that by forcing DRI to cripple GEMDRAW they are going to sell more MACS? > People who buy IBM PCs or compatibles will continue to do so for whatever > reasons they buy them today - they are not going to rush out and buy MACS > because DRI crippled GEM. It's worse than that. We now have Apple Computers' decision about the il- legality of work-alikes to contend with. While, on the other hand, AT&T has not only NOT sued Mark Williams Co. for Coherent (a Unix workalike not based on AT&T code), they have actually LICENSED another lookalike (Regulus). So who's right? Moreover, the decision would destroy the GNU project. Apple is hell-bent to cripple the computer industry. Which they've been doing for a long time anyway (the only good thing about the IBM PC is that IBM's name was enough to force it past the heavy-handedness of Apple to prospective computer buyers that there are better computers than the Apple ][). -- ``Youth, you are guilty of muddy thinking.'' Mentor ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNet (ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA) ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa -- maybe ..genrad!mit-eddie!futura!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St., Mentor, OH 44060 (I moved) --Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 -- MCI MAIL BALLBERY (WARNING: I am only a part-time denizen...) ncoast is dead, long live ncoast!
peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (10/31/85)
> Apple is hell-bent to cripple the computer industry. Which they've been > doing for a long time anyway (the only good thing about the IBM PC is > that IBM's name was enough to force it past the heavy-handedness of Apple > to prospective computer buyers that there are better computers than the Apple > ][). Give me a break, man. Apple *never* had a majority share of the market like IBM does today, in fact like IBM has had for decades. You greatly over-rate their power. If you want to point fingers at people crippling the computer industry, look to IBM. The PC is barely a step above the old CP/M machines that were the business computers of what you imply was the "Apple Era". For all its failings the Mac is a step above that. Apple may currently be run by *******s, but IBM is run by powerful *******s. -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter