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>The only thing I think was discourteous was.... once the deal was decided...
>that we find out in a terse web statement. Since millions of dollars and
>hundreds of thousands of users are involved, it would have been wise,
>courteous, and good business sense - to announce it in a nice way, with some
>plans for the LAW cross grade already thought out. Apple screwed up by
>stirring everyone up unnecessarily.

I absolutely agree with this.  They should have made their statement 
a little less ambiguous and open to interpretation.

>However, as I said before, Apple is doing a number of borderline crap things
>- trying to copy Micro$oft's greedy bully tactics.

They have always done some pretty annoying things.  That's why 
everyone was so happy and optimistic back in the clone days.  The 
problem was the clones nearly put them out of business.