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From: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.mac,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Re: Apple suing people, protection of ideas
Message-ID: <393@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 08:27:22 EDT
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In article <184@circadia.UUCP> dave@circadia.UUCP (David Messer) writes:
>> 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.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't XEROX sell the AT&T PC
running GEM as their low end office automation machine? If true
apparently XEROX doesn't give much validity to Apple's copyrights, 
patents, etc.




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