Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!oliveb!Ozona!chase From: chase@Ozona.orc.olivetti.com (David Chase) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Customizable Interfaces at Risk? Message-ID: <45855@oliveb.olivetti.com> Date: 1 Aug 89 21:13:40 GMT References: <8907312348.AA08338@nlp9> Sender: news@oliveb.olivetti.com Reply-To: chase@Ozona.UUCP (David Chase) Organization: Olivetti Research Center, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 21 paul@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >nli!jym@APPLE.COM writes: >> [What about customizable interfaces?] >I would hope not. Sure, A or B could sue the individual purchaser >(hopefully not successfully) for makeing a "Look and Feel" like their >product using your product, but you as the supplier *should* be in the >clear. >Personally, I think that any company that launched a suit against the >producer of a configurable system should be laughed out of court. You laugh, I'll just be disgusted. Consider the record industry and the manufacturers of cassette and DA tapes and tape recorders. No copyright violations are committed by the company manufacturing these things, but the fact that these devices *enable* copyright violations by consumers has lead to lots and lots of time in and out of court. If somebody cared enough, life could be made pretty unpleasant for somebody selling a configurable product. David