Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Apple wins in preliminary hearings against Microsoft Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 16:41:06 GMT References: <1991Mar7.085754.31096@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: The Search For Terrestrial Intelligence Lines: 22 In article <1991Mar7.085754.31096@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > > Both Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft argued >that the Macintosh user interface is not entitled to copyright >protection because it had been copied from earlier programs, principally >Xerox Star and SmallTalk. The court said the Macintosh user interface >programs were original works, independently created by Apple. FLAME ON! Well of course the *programs* were individual works! What does this judge think this is, a piracy case? No! It's a look-and-feel case! Is this judge computer-literate at all? He seems to be about as computer-literate as the Secret Service agents that raided Steve Jackson Games. That is to say, not at all. -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "There's UFOs over New Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | York, and I ain't too 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | surprised." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (John Lennon) "Nobody told me there'd be days like these... Strange days indeed!"