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From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.databases, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: FileMaker Archaeology
Date	2015-12-16 13:05 +1300
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<161220151305534223%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	(4 earlier) <141220152345582156%nospam@nospam.invalid> <slrnn70buu.o07.g.kreme@amelia.local> <151220151059208787%nospam@nospam.invalid> <slrnn70nar.qqg.g.kreme@amelia.local> <_I%by.1$IX3.0@fx36.iad>

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In article <_I%by.1$IX3.0@fx36.iad>, Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net>
wrote:
> On 12/15/15 10:32 AM, Lewis wrote:
> > In message <151220151059208787%nospam@nospam.invalid>
> >    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >> In article <slrnn70buu.o07.g.kreme@amelia.local>, Lewis
> >> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I posted this in comp.databases.filemaker but that group gets even
> >>>>>>>> less traffic than this one (if possible).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I have been using FieMaker since before Claris bought it.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Claris did not buy Filemaker.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> yes they did, from nashoba systems
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You are grossly misinformed.
> >>>
> >>>> you're grossly ignorant.
> >>>
> >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris#Creation>
> >>>>    In 1988, Claris purchased FileMaker from Nashoba Systems and quickly
> >>>
> >>> Claris could not buy anything, being a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple.
> >>> Apple bought FileMaker and assigned it to Claris.
> >
> >> nonsense,
> >
> > Not at all. In fact, the purchase of FileMaker and the spinning out of
> > Claris were nearly synchronous events. Without the purchase of FileMaker
> > Claris would never have been spunout because the whole reason for
> > creating Claris was to continue to sell FileMaker to PC users.
> >
> >> but even if that were true, filemaker was still bought.
> >
> > Not the point at all. But thanks for playing.
> 
> 1. Where is it written that wholly-owned subsidiaries cannot buy anything?
> 
> 2. Claris was formed in 1987 to continue the development of MacWrite, 
> MacPaint, MacProject, MacDraw (as well as Apple II program, AppleWorks) 
> at some remove from Apple itself.
> 
> 3. FileMaker wasn't purchased until the next year.

You're wasting your time. Brainless nospam lives in his own fantasy
world. Just killfile the moron and ignore him.

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  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 00:51 +0000
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-14 20:05 -0500
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 04:23 +0000
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-14 23:45 -0500
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 15:18 +0000
            Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 10:59 -0500
              Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 18:32 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 16:32 -0500
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