Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Apple wins against Microsoft Windows/HP New Wave Keywords: Apple sues Microsoft windows Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 18:56:28 GMT References: <1991Mar8.174712.5519@odin.corp.sgi.com> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 28 archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Archer Sully) writes: > In <4159.27d64355@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Rya > *I just got this out of comp.sys.amiga.misc. If Apple can sue Microsoft for > *windows, is Digital Research and Gem far behind? Gem is a lot closer to the > *interface of the Mac than Windows is. > > DRI settled with Apple long ago, so Gem is in the clear. Not true. DRI settled with Apple and produced GEM 3. GEM 3 was never released on the ST; the ST uses a GEM 2 derivative, and is therefore probably viewed by Apple as infringing its copyright. The changes which DRI agreed to make were that the desktop front-end not have multiple resizable overlapping windows, that the menus be drop-down rather than pull-down, and that there be no trash can on the desktop. The new TT desktop is even more Mac-like, so we can expect trouble if Apple wins and goes on to pick on someone else. Of course, GEM 3 had all sorts of neat stuff as well, like custom icons, proper device-independent output and the like. If DRI and Atari hadn't fallen out, we might have got a much better OS. Still, DRI seem to have dropped GEM now... mathew