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He Said She Said (10/4/97)
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Goodness gracious, we knew things would get interesting when POWERtools announced they were going to ship PPC 750-based Mac clones, but we thought the ruckus would be between POWERtools and Apple. As it turns out, Apple has so far stayed out of the public fray... Instead, it's Apple's sanctioned "clone buddy" UMAX who's mixing it up with POWERtools.

Last week, it was widely reported that POWERtools head Victor Wong was claiming he held a cloning OEM agreement from UMAX. It didn't take long for UMAX's Larry Herman to go public and state that POWERtools had no such agreement; this was posted to the MRP. Well, the latest in the argument seems to be Victor Wong's letter that was posted to MacNN, in which he states that his agreement is with UMAX Taiwan, and that the details would therefore never have been disclosed to the U.S. consumer division of UMAX. He also states that he has spoken personally with the Apple Mac OS licensing group in California, and that everything's just peachy.

At least, that was the latest, until the MRP posted last Friday that UMAX's Larry Herman was flatly contradicting Victor Wong's letter, and states quite clearly that POWERtools holds neither a sublicense, nor any kind of OEM agreement with any branch or division of UMAX. This argument may be raging for a while. Suppose it's all a big misunderstanding? Who's on first?

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/4/97 episode:

October 4, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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