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From: turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 12:05:43 EDT
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> >There is an article in the 10/1 issue of the San Jose Mecury News with the
> >announcement that DRI has agreed to (effective 11/15) stop supporting the
> >current version of GEM and to ship a modified version to avoid charges of
> >copyright violations of Apple's software. 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 
> >nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA               {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,pyramid}!nsc!chuqui
> 
> Is this for real????!!!!!???  How in the world can Apple claim to have a
> copyright on the "look and feel" of its Macintosh software when it is such a
> close copy of work done at Xerox Parc?  
> 
> I don't have any legal expertise, but it looks like Apple doesn't have a leg
> to stand on.  I hope that someone with some legal knowledge will comment on
> this because I don't see how Apple can get away with it.
> 
> Barry Locklear
> AT&T Information Systems Labs
> ihnp4!druhi!lbl

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from what i hear (from inside a certain company involved in this) DRI is
just plain chicken and doesnt want to risk a lawsuit
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