From: papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: Linux on Macintrashes? (STOP ALREADY!) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 02:24:01 GMT
In article <1r4taiINN9cf@shelley.u.washington.edu> tzs@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
>The only sense that the Mac is closed is that only Apple makes them.
>In that sense, nearly every hardware platform is closed: only DEC
>makes VAXes, only Compaq makes Compaqs, only IBM makes IBMs, etc.
The sense in which the Mac is closed beyond these other companies is
that they like to stem the flow of new ideas (like mac clones, mac
emulation software) through litigation. And just as I won't buy a
product from Lotus, I won't buy one from Apple.