Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Patents and Architecture Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 12:07:44 GMT References: <4742@sunquest.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <4742@sunquest.UUCP> terry@sunquest.UUCP (Terry Friedrichsen) writes: > Additionally, after much tromping in and out of court, Apple's original > 176 points of similarity between the Apple UI and the Microsoft Windows > UI were reduced to just two: moveable icons and overlapping (vs. tiled) > windows. I'd say that both are probably patentable, but since Apple didn't invent them it's pretty damn bizzarre that Apple's suing microsoft over them. I'd say, myself, that the big similarity between Windows and the Mac (rather than between Windows, the Mac, and the Xerox Star) is the use of pull-down menus. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.