DRI agrees to change GEM

[Brandon S. Allbery]

> 	The visionary light has gone out of Apple. The company has become yet 
> another short-sighted next-quarter-oriented concern. Does Apple really believe 
> that by forcing DRI to cripple GEMDRAW they are going to sell more MACS? 
> People who buy IBM PCs or compatibles will continue to do so for whatever
> reasons they buy them today - they are not going to rush out and buy MACS
> because DRI crippled GEM. 

It's worse than that.  We now have Apple Computers' decision about the il-
legality of work-alikes to contend with.  While, on the other hand, AT&T has
not only NOT sued Mark Williams Co. for Coherent (a Unix workalike not based
on AT&T code), they have actually LICENSED another lookalike (Regulus).  So
who's right?

Moreover, the decision would destroy the GNU project.

Apple is hell-bent to cripple the computer industry.  Which they've been
doing for a long time anyway (the only good thing about the IBM PC is
that IBM's name was enough to force it past the heavy-handedness of Apple
to prospective computer buyers that there are better computers than the Apple
][).
-- 
	``Youth, you are guilty of muddy thinking.''

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