Re: [NTLK] Steve J asked about the Newton...and answers!

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 14:29:48 EDT


* Pedro Hobbyfrazoo <pjfraser_at_mac.com> on Wed, 12 Jun 2002
| under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies
| like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art" -Bill
| Gates, 1983

Y'mean like MicroSoft stealing CPM circa 1980, before CPM was bought out by
MicroSoft and Bill Gates wrote himself a retroactive license to use the
code in MS-DOS?

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