Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iuvax!mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!nexus.YorkU.CA!oz
From: oz@nexus.YorkU.CA (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Just in case you are interested (!)
Keywords: lawsuits, X-windows, look-and-feel
Message-ID: <13545@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 6 Aug 90 19:44:46 GMT
Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
Lines: 49

The following was posted to comp.emacs by Richard Stallman. I believe
it is important enough for you to see it, [in case you have missed it]
and hence this repost.

| From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU
| Newsgroups: comp.emacs
| Subject: X marks the suit
| Message-ID: <9008031720.AA08100@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu>
| Date: 3 Aug 90 17:20:02 GMT
| Article-I.D.: sugar-bo.9008031720.AA08100
| Posted: Fri Aug  3 13:20:02 1990
| Lines: 29
| 
| I hope this taste of the shape of things to come in the computer
| industry will wake enough of us up before it is too late...
| 
| 
| Date: Fri,  3 Aug 90 10:51:34 -0400 (EDT)
| From: Nicholas John Williams <njw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
| To: staff@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
| Subject: TWM Virtual Desktop, Look & Feel Lawsuits etc.
| 
| As many of you know, there was a version of TWM available recently,
| which had patches (written by Dave Edmondson of Imperial College) which
| added a "Virtual Desktop" facility. This allowed you to spread your
| windows out over virtual space and select which area to view at any one
| time.  The feature was modelled after the Solbourne Window Manager,
| performing the same sort of tasks as their Virtual Desktop.
| 
| Wednesday, the patches allowing TWM to do this were placed into the
| contrib area on expo.lcs.mit.edu.
| 
| Following this, Dave Edmondson yesterday received a letter from Paul
| Lippe, the vice president of Solbourne stating that he had "engaged in
| unauthorized copying of Solbourne's virtual desktop utility feature".
| 
| Legal discussions are currently underweigh and, until further notice,
| the vtwm in the windowmanagers locker has been made unavailable.
| 
| Nick.
| njw@athena.mit.edu
| njw@doc.imperial.ac.uk
| 

oz
---
First learn your horn and all the theory.	Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca
Next develop a style. Then forget all that 	uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz
and just play.		Charlie Parker [?]	York U. CCS: (416) 736 5257