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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.113731.16832@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <10922@uwm.edu> <1991Apr16.012744.21996@sugar.hackercorp.com> <jqdGj55r1@cs.psu.edu>
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 11:37:31 GMT

In article <jqdGj55r1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> In article <1991Apr16.012744.21996@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>    Hey, DP is a great idea... but why did NeXT split the market by inventing it
>    over again from scratch instead of adapting and polishing NeWS?

> They would have to pay royalties to Sun, a competitor?

That doesn't seem to bother people like Solbourne, or in another field it
doesn't bother SCO to be paying royalties to AT&T. For that matter, NeXT
does that too.

> It would look bad using a News since it was already beaten by X.

NeWS was "beaten" by X on price. What they implemented is a subset of
NeWS... this is supposed to be an advantage?

> I'm sure that you could probably think of a few more.

I'm trying.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
