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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple's claim on GUI techniques
Message-ID: <1529.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 19 Mar 91 22:29:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.204622.4797@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from <1991Mar19.204622.4797@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> by rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell):

>   One good thing is that Apple's claims seem to conflict with
> AT&T's "patent" on overlapping windows using backing store. Perhaps
> AT&T will get pulled into the battle.

    It's possible that this is the reason companies like AT&T (and
    Xerox, a while back) are bringing up patent stuff. I recall a
    reasonable sounding theory a while back that Xerox only hassled
    Apple about GUI issues because they had some $$ deal in the works,
    and needed to clarify the issue to calm their customers.

    Shame programmer's haven't set about putting lawyers out of work.

> |n|   rjc@albert.ai.mit.edu   Amiga, the computer for the creative mind.  |n|
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