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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.012658.11627@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:26:58 GMT
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- anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- >it does not have much resources and would probably lose. Suits are in
- >Apple's best interest as it has much resources and often wins. Apple
- >only loses against similarly large, powerful companies.
- >
- >The issue just isn't proprietary vs open, litigious vs coopertive, it's
- >also the corporate monolith vs the little guy.
-
- So why did Apple pay off the guy who claimed Hypercard infringed his
- patent rather than just litigate his tiny company out of existence?
-
- --Tim Smith
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