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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple/Microsoft Lawsuit
Keywords: Apple Microsoft Windows GUI Look-and-Feel Lawsuit
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Date: 9 Dec 90 07:30:46 GMT
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pasek@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek) climbs the minaret and chants
this call for a jihad:

>Just wondering what is happening with the Apple/Microsoft lawsuit regarding
>Windows 2.0 (and, presumably, Windows 3.0).  I haven't heard a thing since
>hearing that the judge dismissed some of the points, but left others.
>Personally, I'd LOVE to see the faces of my PC-coworkers (who smugly say 
>"See, now my PC is JUST like a Mac !) when their software becomes illegal!
>Of course, maybe Apple (and Microsoft, for that matter) would be better
>served by letting Windows deliver the coup de grace to OS/2 and Presentation
>Manager BEFORE letting the judge decide that Windows infringes on the Mac's
>Look-and-Feel.
>Sorry if this starts another flame-fest about the merits of the lawsuit.

Well, if you don't want a flame-fest, why behave like a platform chauvinist?
The readers of this group dislike DOS just as much as you do, or they would
not be reading it, but why attempt by artificial means to prevent it from
getting better?  Don't you think using DOS (even with a Windows 3.0 overlay
on a RAM-loaded 486) is punishment enough?  Why do you wish to stop 
progress?

Windows is not more like the Mac interface than, say, NeXTstep.  Maybe you feel
that all GUIs violate Apple's divine right to the graphical interface.  If so,
please remember that it was originally created by Xerox, at the time part-owner
of Apple. Apple never paid a cent for it.  A belated Xerox suit against Apple,
claiming a divine right to the graphical interface, was laughed out of court
earlier this year.

Boris Levitin
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