Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!cci632!tvf From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Boycott apple! Message-ID: <29891@cci632.UUCP> Date: 27 Jul 89 12:40:32 GMT References: <8907202252.AA02288@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <85@euteal.ele.tue.nl> <55791@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: tvf@ccird7.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) Distribution: gnu Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY Lines: 18 In article <55791@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Lum Johnson writes: >In article lum@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) writes: >> Apple, on the other hand, are widely acknowledged to have stolen >> the ideas for their user interface from Xerox, admittedly with Xerox' >> connivance, who were stupid enough to not appropriately distrust Apple. >As someone else has pointed out to me, Apple have actually paid Xerox >for some concepts acquired from them. Fair's fair - I acknowledge this. I recall a article that came out a few weeks after the "look-and-feel" suit came out where Xerox officials were denying that the agreement that they signed with Apple didn't cover {any, nowheres neare the amount of} the technology they "borrowed". Thomas V. Frauenhofer ...!rutgers!rochester!cci632!ccird7!tvf *or* ...!rochester!cci632!ccird7!frau!tvf *or* ...!rochester!rit!anna!ma!tvf1477 FRAU BBS: (716) 227-8094 2400/1200/300 baud - log in as "new" to register "The Earth? I'm going to blow it up. It obstructs my view of Venus" - Martin