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From: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why??
Message-ID: <3872@mordor.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 12:45:42 EDT
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Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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Keywords: copyrights, patents

If you think Apple has a poor case for copyrighting their user
interface, you might be interested in the discussion currently
underway in "net.graphics" regarding a patent (!) on the use of
XOR for graphics operations (e.g. drawing cursors).  (I haven't
decided yet whether I really believe this is true; nonetheless,
it is interesting reading.)
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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