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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
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Subject: Re: look and feel (was Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User)
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Date: 4 Apr 91 15:51:56 GMT
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In article <91MAR30.004457@ducvax.auburn.edu> wadew@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
|Why are you mad about Apple's look and feel lawsuit?  It's just trying to 
|protect that which sets Macintosh apart (and to many, makes it better).

Easy. Here's an example you can understand....

There are only so many ways one can ask for entry of name, address, phone #.
When all of those ways are "look and feel" copyrighted, no-one else will
be able to write a new program that wants that information.

*That's* what look and feel leads to.

Mark Brown
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