Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs.umn.edu!oleary From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0 Summary: My dad can beat up your dad. Message-ID: <3862@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 5 May 91 00:47:57 GMT References: <1991May2.115300.2662@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1991May4.171453.4489@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services Lines: 32 In article <1991May4.171453.4489@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >In article , >unierik@uts.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen) writes: >> Yes, the idea is that you can drop any file on any application, and the >> application should start and open the file. >> >This idea of dropping document icons on program icons began, I believe, in >MS Windows. Has Apple paid MS some license fee for using it? Would Apple care >to comment on the ethics of stealing user-interface from MS while suing MS for >doing the same to Apple? > >Maynard Handley Take your flame wars somewhere else, Mr. Handley. Ideas don't originate in software packages, they come from people. Even if Windows was the first to IMPLEMENT the idea doesn't mean they have exclusive rights to its use (Xerox vs. Apple). It may very well be that the idea came from within Apple during System 7 development. Another item to add to list in the Apple vs. Microsoft lawsuit perhaps (which, I believe, has been expanded to cover Windows 3.0). We shall see. --------- Doc ********************** Signature Block : Version 2.5 ********************* * | OK, one last time . . . This is * * "Was it love, or was it the idea | an egg . . . This is an egg in a * * of being in love?" -- PF | frying pan . . . Any questions? * * (BTW, which one *is* Pink?) | * * | --->oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu<--- * ****************** Copyright (c) 1991 by Doc O'Leary ********************