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From: scoile@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Steve Coile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Apple wins against Microsoft Windows/HP New Wave
Keywords: Apple sues Microsoft windows
Message-ID: <3735@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 91 02:43:52 GMT
References: <4159.27d64355@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Mar7.223704.19777@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Mar8.202159.2130@abode.wciu.edu>
Reply-To: scoile@gmuvax2.UUCP (Steve Coile)
Organization: George Mason Univ. Fairfax, Va.
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I do NOT understand how Apple can copyright an IDEA!!!  It's like J.R.R.
Tolkein coming back and suing (sp?) every other author who has ever
written fantasy!  I mean, what if IBM sued every company distributing a
CLI?  Or AT&T suing every company that cloned Unix?  Who the hell does
Apple think they are??  Or maybe more importantly, who's the judge who
doesn't understand that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are not CONCRETE, and thus
cannot HAVE a copyright???

Steve "Stevers!" Coile
scoile@gmuvax[{.BITNET|[2].gmu.edu}]|2211c1@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
"Maturity is knowing when and where to act immature"