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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 17:58:09 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 personally do not want to see Apple get a patent for there (Xerox) user
friendly operating system.  What we need in the computer world is more
user friendly operating systems, not some small upstart dominating the
whole concept of user friendly machines.  Granting a patent will set 
computer friendliness back too many years.