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From: turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 12:12:37 EDT
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> > >... Apple has claimed that GEM copied
> > >"The look and feel" or its Macintosh software and violated Apple's
> > >copyright. GEM uses, among other things, windowns, drop-down menus, and
> > >icons that substantially resemble the Mac.
> >
> >:From under the bar at Callahan's:   Chuq Von Rospach 
> 
> Actually, I believe Apple has applied for a patent on the pull-down window
> approach.  I don't know if the patent has been granted, and, even if it is
> granted, that may not guarantee the patent would hold up in court.
> 
> -- 
> 	Mike Eve     Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
> 	...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve

i may be confused but i thought the "out" was that Apple used pop-up menus
and DRI used pull-down. am i wrong ? is there a diff ?

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