Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.unix Subject: Re: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <870@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 21:36:32 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.870 Posted: Sun Oct 27 21:36:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:43:17 EST References: <3208@nsc.UUCP> <1196@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 30 Keywords: GEM Macintosh Regulus Unix Apple AT&T Coherent GNU Xref: watmath net.micro.pc:5734 net.unix:6067 > 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!