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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Apple/Microsoft/HP suit may have *some* life in it yet
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Date: 31 Jul 89 12:46:58 GMT
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In article <8181@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
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>So if Apple wants to go on, this court could still end up deciding
>whether "look and feel" copyrights can apply to computer programs.

Then let's hope they go on, and get this bugaboo settled once and for all.
Then all we'll have left is the problem with people getting ridiculous
patents on concepts and trying to greenmail people into paying them.