Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Apple's claim on GUI techniques Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 17:58:54 GMT References: <1991Mar19.204622.4797@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <9HZ-_4+@irie.ais.org> <1991Mar20.064138.4645@cs.dal.ca> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 49 In-Reply-To: dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca's message of 20 Mar 91 06:41:38 GMT In article <1991Mar20.064138.4645@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) writes: In article <9HZ-_4+@irie.ais.org> jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: >In article <1991Mar19.204622.4797@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: >>I saw this in comp.sys.mac.system: >> [... A bit of quote cutting never hurt anybody ...] I can't really see this happening for a number of reasons... A) Commodore (whether we like it or not) is not that much competition for Apple. If Apple doesn't become innovative *QUICK* Commodore will become competition and will eat it alive. B) Quote from an old issue old BYTE (some time last year, about GUI's) "Intuition is quite arguably the father of Multifinder" I'm sure Ape Pull would get the looky feelies about the other stuff, but I could see Commodore counter-sueing and Apple losing Multifinder. I can see it now, Commodore claiming "Multiple Programs on same display" and raising a major shit storm with Xerox, SGI and SUN. :-) Surely you mean ``The Mother of All ShitStorms'' C) (the grey outline thing) Commodore can get around this because theirs is complemented colours. Of course the guys that ``invented'' Xor cursors might call it a cursor and sue, you where right, smells like a ShitStorm rising. D) As for 5,6,7 I don't see how Apple can claim this as it's the application's headache (under ToolBox) to do all this. The GUI manager does none of this for you, whereas every other window server (Intuition for example, and SGI NeWS) does this for you and tells you about it. Anyway, that's what I think. I think you think quite clear. -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?