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- From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Subject: Re: No Figs in the Apple Newton
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.223803.19177@uwm.edu>
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Aug22.022127.9699@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:38:03 GMT
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- rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
- : "Only a year after Apple shelled out $26.5 million to settle a suit brought
- : by The Beatles over the name "Apple", the company may be facing another
- : fight. This years offender: Newton. Those in the industry may remember it
- : as the moniker of an upcoming handheld personal computer from Apple,
- : but the rest of the world knows it as a fig cookie made by Nabisco Foods
- : Group. Nabisco has held the "Newton" trademark for 101 years... and has
- : been known to be very protective of its rights."
-
- It's finally happened:
-
- Apple has lost it's foolish, hair-brained little mind.
-
- First, Apple decides it would be fun to steal their name from
- the Beatles. Sure, it'll be great, and it'll only cost us 27 mill.
- Then, they say, "I know, there's this great little research place
- known as the Xerox PARC (P.A.R.C. stands for PARC ARC RC C, of
- course). We'll steal their "look and feel", and start suing everyone
- with legs". Of course, that was a long time ago...
-
- And now, they re-invent the wheel. Or should I say, they
- stole it. This time, they steal an entire product, the Newton, from
- Nabisco. Didn't you know it would happen.
-
- And to think, all you idiots thought the Netwon was some stupid
- hand-held computer. Yeah, right. At least the truth is out now. The
- Newton will be arriving in several flavors: cherry, strawberry, and
- Intel Inside... you can bet it doesn't taste like silicon. Of
- course, they're going to have Jeffrey Dahmer as the spokesperson for
- the Intel Inside Newton...
-
- Greg
-
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- (: (: (: (: Have you overdosed on smileys today? Why NOT!?! :) :) :) :) :)
- (: "...and here's Clinton giving the correct spelling of bong-resin..." :)
- (: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Gregory R. Block :)
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