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From: dave@circadia.UUCP (David Messer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Apple suing people, protection of ideas
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 12:07:23 EDT
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> Now, if this is the case, doesn't Apple deserve some reward
> (aside from flattery) for making something that somebody else copied?

Don't forget the Apple stole most of the ideas in the mac (as well
as quite a few engineers) from XEROX-PARC.  Should XEROX sue Apple?

> Now of course Xerox is another story.  But the Mac doesn't use the same
> sort of pictures as Xerox products like the star, and the Mac certainly
> wasn't claiming to be "like a Xerox".

No, Apple claims to have invented it all themself.  Many people
believe them.

As far as looking like XEROX, take a look at some of the icons and
compare them to the STAR.
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