Re: NTLK Purchasing Rights to the Newton...?

From: gopi@sloth.org
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 02:04:35 CDT


On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Peter Apockotos wrote:

> Sorry guys that is all I can say or I should not have said at all, don't
> look for it too soon and don't expect in the "PDA" for you have grown to
> love.

Any information about a future apple device would very likely be
considered a trade secret and under NDA. Revealing any informationa bout
it, or even its existance, would be a violation of your or somebody else's
legal obligations. You stated that you shoudlnt' have said anything. You
are aware that this is something you should not be talking about.

Earlier you were attacking others for unknowingly (in most cases) copying
unsupported software. Now you are willfully revealing proprietary
information. Perhaps it isn't very detailed, and we really do have no
reason to believe that you have accurate information here, but you are
claiming to have violated your obligations by revealing this information.

Don't attack other people for their supposed wrongdoings and then turn
right around and break the law yourself. It does not reflect well on your
believability.

gopi.

(Perhaps I am being overly antagonistic or nasty here, but for somebody
who was just complaining about people copying NCU I find the divulging of
supposedly secret information in public to be entirely inappropriate. I
still do not believe that Apple will produce anything that will in any way
truly compete with the Newton, but that's another story...)

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