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From: sman@pilchuck.UUCP (Michael Spillman)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 21:29:30 EDT
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> 	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.

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	M. D. Spillman	a.k.a.	...uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!pilchuck!sman