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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan25.000017.51991@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 96 00:00:17 -0600
- References: <wfblanDL1rDu.Mo4@netcom.com> <4dsmdh$kvi@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <1996Jan22.205018.51948@cobra.uni.edu> <4e3u8f$9qe@natasha.rmii.com>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
-
- In article <4e3u8f$9qe@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) writes:
- > PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- > : If Apple goes under, that is a BIG IF..We have PowerComputing, Umax, Radius and
- > : DayStar Digital! Nothing changes.
- >
- > Are you stupid or something? Apple OWNS MacOS. Without Apple, they are
- > not legally allowed to produce those machines. If Microsoft, Sun, or IBM
- > purchased the machine they are likely as not to simply integrate what
- > they want into their own operating systems and dump Mac OS and clones
- > altogether.
-
- Excuse me dumbass!! If Sun swallows up Apple, any licensing agreement between
- the old Apple is still valid despite the new ownership. If any of those firms
- bought out Apple, why would they want to dump Mac OS and clones? Why buy it in
- the first place?
-
- >
- > Even if they DID allow clones to be made, there would likely be no further
- > major development and with that in mind the Mac would lose marketshare by
- > the bucketload. In two years, it'd be no more a blip than the Amiga.
-
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- What are you talking about?
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