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| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
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| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
756.0. "Apple won! Aladin is dead!" by BERN01::RUGGIERO () Thu Feb 01 1990 05:00
Last night when I came home from work I found the following letter in my
letterbox. I publish it here for informational purpose only without any
permission of the sender.
Mr Moderator, please feel free to delete this note if you think it violates
any policies...
[---original text follows---]
Softpaquet Distribution
Weteringdreef 61
2724 GT Zoetermeer
Niederlande Jan 2th 1990
Dear Aladin User
First allow us to wish you a happy and bug-free year. We had hoped
to send you some good news, however it was not to be. Unfortunately
we are no longer allowed to answer questions/requests regarding Aladin,
its drivers, its support, or its updates.
Due to a lawsuit filed by Apple Germany and coordinated via Apple Europe
we had to stop all sales and support of Aladin in any form. For this
there will also not be an update of Aladin to a 128K ROM version.
This lawsuit included all items related to Aladin and thus applies to
the printer drivers also. We will therefor not be able to send out
printer drivers to anyone. Doing so is illegal and would result in
another lawsuit.
Many drivers were sent prior to the lawsuit. We suggest you check with
friends or colleagues to see if they own one.
We are very sorry that we had to take such drastic steps but if we
continue to sell Aladins and/or printer drivers you, the users, would
also be in danger of lawsuits from Apple. Apple might very well consider
setting a few "examples" with you.
If your are interested in emulation products there is a firm in Germany
(no relation to Softpaquet) which sells the Spectre 128 (GCR) and other
products that you might (will) find interesting.
FEARN & MUSIC
Roemerstr. 21 tel 0711-602489
D-7000 Stuttgart 1 fax 0711-649 3711
PS: Problems with Aladin that do not require disks can still be sent to
Softpaquet (do not contact Fearn & Music for these problems) and we will try
to answer them as well as we can within the limits set by the lawsuit.
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| 756.1 | Who's Next ??? | CHEFS::GOSSA | DON'T PANIC!!..Drink more tea! | Thu Feb 01 1990 05:59 | 3 |
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Wonder what the chances of SPECTRE GCR being next on the hit list now
that Apple's lawyers have the taste of blood...??????
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| 756.2 | Spectre's "legal" | CARAFE::GOLDSTEIN | Praise be to Nero's Neptune | Thu Feb 01 1990 10:03 | 3 |
| Very little chance of a problem. Dave Small made a deal with Apple
back when he was with Data Pacific (Magic Sac) and the same terms
appear to apply to Spectre.
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