Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,uiuc.sys.apple2,uiuc.general
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: A2R&D vs. Apple
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.173306.25759@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <1991Apr16.012944.24966@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr16.030552.6353@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr16.123324.21596@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 17:33:06 GMT

In article <1991Apr16.123324.21596@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:

[various quotes]

[stuff re the Apple Microsoft lawsuit]

[gives reason why, in his opinion Apple suing MS]

>The people who think Apple's suit is bad would like to HURT Apple.  Not buying
>Apple's products and not developing software for Apple products would
>be one way of doing that.

I do not want to hurt Apple, and I personally feel that this lawsuit is
unacceptable( as are many other "look and feel" ones).

Please consider that most R&D in the computer industry is basically
the "D". Scientists and mathematicians have been working on many of
the problems which commercial vendors then go on to refine in an attempt
to market the items. In one case, people are interested in pushing
forth Man's understanding of Nature, while on the other side CEO's
and bean counters are looking at margins.

Apple has lost a lot of goodwill over this lawsuit.

Just my 2cents' worth( canadian which is less than 2centsUS).

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
[my opinions,etc...]

