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From: gmadison@pnet02.gryphon.com (George Madison)
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Subject: Re: uSoft/Apple and user interfaces
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Date: 6 Aug 89 21:20:22 GMT
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ugkamins@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Dr. R. Chandra) writes:
>In all the stuff I've read recently on the copyright infringement suit
>brought by Apple against MicroSoft for Windows 2.03, I have to wonder:
>
>Why did Commodore-Amiga's Intuition interface not enter into the suit?
>Why did Tandy's DeskMate interface not enter into the suit?
>
>From what I read in gnu.misc.discuss, Intuition windows sound exactly
>like uSoft's Windows and Mac windows.  DeskMate windows and dialog
>boxes, while not similar to me, seem to share many of the same graphic
>ideas (especially dialog boxes with all those buttons that can be
>"pressed").
>
>So my basic question is: why leave these guys alone and only go after
>uSoft and HP???

My favorite answer to this is simply that in the case of Intuition, Apple
didn't want the world to know there was a powerful, inexpensive, COLOR 68000
machine on the market.  A lawsuit against Intuition would have brought the
Amiga a VAST amount of *FREE* publicity that Apple didn't want to give it.  I
suppose they just hoped the Amiga would quietly die and go away.  Fortunately,
they guessed wrong.

If it had been widely known that the Amiga was available (with real
multitasking, yet!) several years ago, the machine would undoubtedly be in an
even stronger position than it is today.  (Personally, I'm trying to scrounge
up the bux for an A2000 with the GVP 68030/25MHz processor card... (Drool!))


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