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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A2R&D vs. Apple
Message-ID: <4891.280c28e9@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 15:52:25 GMT
References: <108667@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <108667@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, meekins@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy lee meekins) writes:
> I don't understand why so reecently people have been against Apple for their
> suit. I think Apple has every right to that suit. Apple developed a very unique
> interface. Certainly, much of the research was performed at PARC, but we all
> know Xerox's track record on marketing. Apple borrowed the idea and gave it
> to the masses. Apple is not suing over the idea!!! Apple is suing about certain
> small details. There are now hundreds of windowing systems out now, none of
> which are being challenged by Apple. Why? Because they didn't BLATENTLY steal
> what Apple had developed. I have seen advertisements in magazines for 
> applications running under both Windows and the HP windowing system. When
> I first saw these ads, I actually thought they were Macintosh ads because
> it was an almost exact duplicate. Sheesh, almost everything about the interface
> was copied from Apple. IBM, Microsoft, and HP saw that Apple had a good thing
> and instead of developing an alternative, they simply copied what Apple had
> done. Surprise, Surprise. Right after the suit was filed we find out the
> chief engineer of Windows *just happened* to have worked at Apple when
> the Macintosh was developed. Microsoft's/HP's biggest defense in the case

I've only used Windows, GEM on the ST, an Amiga, and also a Mac. The 
closest thing to the environment on the Mac is my ST. Windows doesn't at 
all look like a Mac. Each window has its own menu bar, there isn't a main 
menu bar, you don't have drive icons or a trash can. It looks totally 
different. I've also seen pictures of Nutek's Mac clone ROMS, which use the 
Motif interface, and this looks a lot like Windows. (on a side note, the 
first product Nutek is supposed to release is the motif desktop for 
existing mac owners.)

I don't want to start an interface war, but I think the main reason behind 
Apple's lawsuits is the fact that Windows actually scares them. Just look 
in a MacWorld, or MacUser. Windows 3.0 is mentioned in about every other 
article, and in about every column also.

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