Re: Apple

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

>Why won't the fact that they
>were losing money at it hand over fist suffice?

Because some people think the licensing agreements could have been set up
better.

Just as an example, I personally think that Apple's hardware certification
program was ludicrous.  Apple should not have beared the costs of testing
other manufacturers' products for compatibility.  If Power Computing wanted
to release a clone that didn't work right, that would have been Power
Computing's problem, not Apple's.  And if Power Computing wanted to release
a 100% compatible machine, it should have been Power's responsibility to do
the testing.  The opposing viewpoint is that Apple has to care because the
reputation of MacOS is at stake.  I don't think Apple should care *that*
much, but there is clearly not uniform agreement that Apple's licensing
program was set up in an intelligent way.



--
Eric Bennett, http://www.pobox.com/~ericb , Cornell Biochemistry Dept.

We don't think we should have to ask permission [from Microsoft] every
time we want to make some minor software modification.  Windows is an
operating system, not a religion.
-Ted Waitt, Chairman, Gateway 2000, Inc.