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- From: bjork@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Gabe Nevarez)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: Apple Roms
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 08:25:17 GMT
- Organization: Yale University
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- In article <v02120d01ad5e893ef167@[199.246.2.110]>,
- weismand@limestone.kosone.com says...
-
- >
- >Also, for you PC types who might not know, Apple is extremely tight about
- >sharing the ROM info, even though it is now licencing to others.
- >
- >In my opinion this is a bit foolish on their part, unless they intend to
- >bring out a competitive product. ARDI could offer them an avenue into an
- >as yet untapped market and save them the trouble of porting a lot of their
- >apps to the Wintel platform.
- >
- >Cheerios,
- > + weismand@limestone.kosone.com +
- ><Dwight W Weisman> +----------------------+-----------------------+
- > > Kingston < | Fax:(613) 547-9649 | Voice:(613) 547-6136 |
- >< Ontario Canada > +----------------------+-----------------------+
- >
- >
-
- As primarily a PC and UNIX user and a computer science major, i'm rather
- confounded by apple's policy towards proprietary information and closed
- systems. Business-wise, apple is somewhat floundering these last few quarters
- due to mass migration to more open platforms, and the resurgence of unix as a
- viable alternative for the masses (ergo the success of Linux and UNIX's
- prominence in internet functions, as well as UNIX's diversity as an
- instructional tool). I enjoy apple machines greatly, and some of the software
- implemented on these machines is far more cost-effective in terms of usability
- and production than the same software on other platforms, mainly in the graphic
- design department, so I have a major interest in ARDI acheiving full
- compatibility. As apple is no longer the leader in technological
- breakthroughs, the logical step is to implement the Mac/OS as a
- platform-independent medium, such that apple maintains its intellectual
- property while diversifying its markets instead of closing in on its current
- business paranoia. In a world where we are all trying to share information,
- apple is making it really difficult by playing the bully.
-
- -gabe nevarez
- bjork@pantheon.cis.yale.edu
- http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~bjork
-
- --
- "It's not about whether you win or lose. It's whether you win"
- --somebody
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