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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.142301.2076@grebyn.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 14:23:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.212636.8200@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
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In article <1991Apr9.212636.8200@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
>In article <1991Apr9.125149.22939@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>They'll have to take that up with MIT, AT&T, Xerox, et al. I'm more concerned
>>with the AT&T backing-store patent, 'cos that's where intuition's design
>>came from.
>
>Peter,
>  I'm starting to think that Commodore must have already licensed
>said technology.  Why?  Because AT&T is going after X, but there
>are, most likely, more machines running intuition... :-)

First, if AT&T *had* sent one of their nasty letters to Commodore, would
we necessarily know about it?

Second, perhaps AT&T can't confirm that SMART_REFRESH windows infringe,
because they can't see the source code for Layers. Anybody can look at
the sources for X.

Third, I think they realize that there would be no reward for persuing
the Amiga.  The total dollar amount generated by X sales, even though it
is a smaller number of units, even though X is derived from free MIT
sources, is probably much higher than the number of
dollars generated by Amiga sales (and I do mean including hardware).
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