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From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
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Subject: Re: A strange sort of fanaticism.
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Date: 26 Jun 89 04:28:35 GMT
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In-reply-to: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU's message of 24 Jun 89 03:20:25 GMT

In article <9672@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes:
>Apple is not claiming that NeWS or X or a host of other "icon-based
>user- interfaces" are a violation of their copyrights. THEY dont look
>like the Macintosh, while NewWave and Windows 2.03 do. This is what
>the lawsuit is about.

Actually, NeWS could be fairly easily reconfigured to imitate the
Macintosh...  and X could probably too, though with much more work.
But what