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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Just in case you are interested (!)
Keywords: lawsuits, X-windows, look-and-feel
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Date: 7 Aug 90 19:11:21 GMT
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cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
|oz@nexus.YorkU.CA (Ozan Yigit) writes:
|
|}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]
|
|Aside from the usual handwrining from the usual handwringers, why is
|this important?  They *admitted* that they borrowed the idea from
|Solbourne's system.

so.

|In any other field of graphic design they'd for
|sure have to get the permission of the originators, why not here?

1) because it doesn't make any sense.
2) because although the first time they saw this was in swm it doesn't mean
   solbourne is the orginator.
3) it's not an issue of graphics design (assuming you mean visual design).

and probably lots of other things.