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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Trash icon
Keywords: Trash icon
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Date: 20 May 91 20:48:59 GMT
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In article <1991May18.211036.13425@terminator.cc.umich.edu> rjc@css.itd.umich.edu (Robert John Churchill) writes:
>Anyone want to take a guess why, using System 7, the icon for the trash
>can't be changed by the "standard" Get Info method?

Lawyers.

Apple sued DRI over GEM; one of the things DRI agreed to do in the settlement
was to move its trash can from the lower right to the lower left.  This
was done ostensibly to reduce the chance that someone looking at GEM might
think it was looking at a Macintosh.

Therefore, Apple's Trash can and its location are forever sacred.

(You asked for a guess; that's all this is, but I think it's a good one.)
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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