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To: soup who wrote (4748)	9/4/1997 9:49:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	of 213177

soup; Apple can give cheaper access by adopting a direct type of policy with Power(and angry dealers?), but eventually all things pass and most dealers now carry Wintels as well, so they can be used for Warranty support for Power sales as a spread the wealth strategy(assuming with a direct sales model you either ship back to power and wait, a hindrance Dell wears, or better yet local fixes via dealers). Does anyone know if an unauthorized clone is possible? IE buy the OS from an Apple store, buy the BIOS(is one available?) and plant on a motherboard(makers of which will spring up if legal bios and OS can be bought? That was how Wintels started. IBM sued hard and fast, but once the BIOS was newly authored they had to stop. The old Apple II had basic on it and it was never rewritten with a new BIOS. Perhaps the modern Apples are the same, no possibility of legal unauthorized clones. Bill

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