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To: Robert Mayo who wrote (5203)	9/29/1997 6:56:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	of 213173

Robert; If Apple recon is correct, one of the scenarios from my etc etc will come to pass. Just buy a mother board and a box, install the latest OS and you have a legal clone. Apple can then increase the OS cost(after the initial upgrade fevor has run it's course) to $200-300 and thus get some money from each clone. It looks like the CPUs are debagged cats, and anyone can buy them. What is now needed is merchant case and power supply makers, ketboards makers, motherboards makers to sell all those parts with a Chirp footprint so that any motherboard fits any case, and a good legal clone market will ensue, with Apple getting $$ from each clone by the price it sells the OS at. If Apple makes a "broken OS"(an OS with a lookup loop for an Apple trademarked comment in ROM, that will not run if it does not find it) then they will lose this chance. I find Apple recon to be quite realistic in his comments. Bill

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