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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 17:18:28 EDT
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In article <27@mit-eddie.UUCP> barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>According to an
>article in Macworld by one of the Lisa developers, pull-down menus and
>double-clicking to open objects were innovations of the Lisa team, and
>GEM copied these exactly.  Anyone who knows how to use the Mac Finder
>can sit down and feel perfectly comfortable with Gem Desktop; I doubt
>that the same could be said about the Dandelion.

   Does anybody else out there think this matter of patenting a "look and
feel" is stupid?  If this is actually legal and defensible, then look for
lots of things happening like Sony suing Sharp (my Sharp "Lynitron" TV looks
an awful lot like a Sony "Triniton", right down to the logo), etc.  Or how
about the originator of the standard telephone design (Bell, GTE?) suing
everyone else who makes a telephone?  Or what about automobiles?  There seem
to be quite a few different companies, foreign and domestic, making cars with
that "Fiero" design.
   Also, I would think that the powers-that-be at Apple would be flattered and
slightly amused at the (unofficial) "Jackintosh" label, rather than claiming
it's in bad taste.  I personally would feel great if my idea became something
of an industry standard, especially since I don't work for IB... oops, uh, for
a certain company known for bludgeoning their way to industry norms.  Anyway,
those people at Apple Corp. should loosen up.

 - joel "vo" plutchak
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster

Can you say "opinion"?  I *knew* you could!