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- From: bayko@BOREALIS.CS.UREGINA.CA (John Bayko)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 23:06:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Regina
- Message-ID: <4eu5ct$j7u@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- References: <wfblanDL1rDu.Mo4@netcom.com> <4e3u8f$9qe@natasha.rmii.com> <1996Jan25.000017.51991@cobra.uni.edu> <4ebg8j$kn9@natasha.rmii.com>
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- In article <4ebg8j$kn9@natasha.rmii.com>,
- Maxwell Daymon <mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com> wrote:
- >PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: 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.
-
- Sun being propriety? You mean, like NFS (a workstation standard)?
- WABI? SPARC (Sun doesn't even make them - companies are free to design
- and implement SPARC chips any way they please)? Solaris (for
- non-Sun SPARC vendors, Intel CPUs, and PowerPC)? Java and TCL?
- That's not very proprietary...
-
- --
- John Bayko (Tau).
- bayko@cs.uregina.ca
- http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko
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