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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Jan29.201629.11540@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:16:29 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <wfblanDL1rDu.Mo4@netcom.com> <4dsmdh$kvi@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <1996Jan22.205018.51948@cobra.uni.edu> <4e3u8f$9qe@natasha.rmii.com> <1996Jan25.000017.51991@cobra.uni.edu> <4ebg8j$kn9@natasha.rmii.com>
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- In <4ebg8j$kn9@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) writes:
-
- >Big IF, and Sun may decide to go proprietary (like they always have)
- >they do NOT have to honor the contracts after they are up.
-
- Sun has had a proprietary UNIX, meaning they won't let you have a
- source licence to port Solaris to your platform of choice, sure. But
- that's not what's really necessary. Unlike Apple, Sun has Solaris in
- shrinkwrap for the PC, for non-Sun SPARC machines, and Real Soon Now
- for the PowerPC. That's already more open that Apple has been to date,
- just what Microsoft has been doing all along with PClones.
-
- >: 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?
-
- >For the patents, "dumbass" - they can INTEGRATE things like Quicktime and
- >not deal with a whole new platform to support.
-
- Apple's patents aren't worth anywhere near what you'd pay for
- Apple. Like most technology companies, sure, they have their share of
- patents, but nothing you're going to pay billions for. The MacOS and
- market are Apple's assets.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
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