Hello,
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Abraham Limpo <abraham@familialimpo.net> wrote:
>By licencing the Operating System to clone manufacturers, we avoided
>precisely what happened with the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST or the >Apple Macintosh, -or the newton- and that is to tie the software to the >hardware.
The Macintosh does not, technically, belong on this list. Power Computing and UMAX (among others) were licensed to make Mac clones in the mid-90s.
Yes, The Steve pulled the plug on that, but for a year or three, anyway, you could indeed buy a legitimate Mac clone from a third-party manufacturer. :)
Best,
James Fraser
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