Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-jwa@alv.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 07:45:24 GMT References: <1991May2.115300.2662@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1991May4.171453.4489@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <3862@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Distribution: comp Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 26 In-reply-to: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu's message of 5 May 91 00:47:57 GMT In article <3862@ux.acs.umn.edu> oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes: >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? >Maynard Handley Take your flame wars somewhere else, Mr. Handley. Exactly ! 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 It wasn't. As so much else, it originated with Xerox. (Though they had a printer icon where you could drop documents to print them - that was planned for 7.0 but I believe Apple changed its mind. Wouldn't want to steal TOO much, huh ?) For me they can steal interface how much they want, though they ought to scrap their i/f lawsuit. -- Jon W{tte h+@nada.kth.se - Power !