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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 21:14:59 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
- Message-ID: <4ebg8j$kn9@natasha.rmii.com>
- References: <wfblanDL1rDu.Mo4@netcom.com> <4dsmdh$kvi@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <1996Jan22.205018.51948@cobra.uni.edu> <4e3u8f$9qe@natasha.rmii.com> <1996Jan25.000017.51991@cobra.uni.edu>
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- PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- : In article <4e3u8f$9qe@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) writes:
- : > 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
-
- 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.
-
- : 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 CAN die, and Apple CAN die as you know it. Grow up and face
- reality. It could go either way.
-