Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pilchuck.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!pilchuck!sman From: sman@pilchuck.UUCP (Michael Spillman) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <187@pilchuck.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 21:29:30 EDT Article-I.D.: pilchuck.187 Posted: Thu Oct 24 21:29:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:38:23 EDT References: <3208@nsc.UUCP> <1196@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.micro.pc:5715 net.micro.atari:1499 net.micro.mac:3150 net.micro.amiga:496 > A more visionary Apple might have forseen that GEM, by introducing > IBM PC and compatible users to a MAC-like interface, was helping to propagate > a standard user interface in the PC industry; in an industry full of > incompatibilities, standards are sorely needed, and GEM is/was helping to > bring together the MAC world and the IBM compatible world, at least at the > user interface level. If only all drawing, painting and desktop programs would > for the masses will backfire: Whereas the "MAC-like User Interface" may have > soon become the industry standard, displacing anything put out by IBM or > Microsoft, Apple has now forfeited that position. > Maybe its not too late. Apple, could you please offer to license your > user-interface to all-comers for a nominal sum? You will benefit in the > long run. 1) You don't make money by giving away your product. 2) IBM would have NEVER advertised their product as "Mac-compatible" That would have made them appear to acknowledge a peer, which, in their eyes, they have none. ***** UNIX: So much entropy, so little work. A VMS hacker and UNIX abuser. M. D. Spillman a.k.a. ...uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!pilchuck!sman