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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: No More Mac ROMs?
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.184049.26094@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 18 Feb 91 18:40:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.140414.23054@contact.uucp> <5688084@nuthaus.UUCP> <1991Feb16.022040.15727@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
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In article <1991Feb16.022040.15727@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
>...  There is absolutely no competition between Apple and other companies 
>because Apple decided everything Xerox Park worked on was actually theirs to
>use, and no one elses.

The situation isn't so devious.  Apple actually went to the trouble to LICENSE
the mouse/icon/desktop ideas from Xerox/PARC.

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