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From: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
Message-ID: <2363@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 14:45:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: drivax.2363
Posted: Thu Sep 10 14:45:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 09:43:45 EDT
References: <681@neoucom.UUCP> <850@sask.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Organization: Bob-ist Temple of Monterey
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Summary: The look and feel of a garbage can

In article <850@sask.UUCP> coleman@sask.UUCP (Geoff Coleman @ College of Engineering) writes:
>	For some reason this reminds mean about a law suit that 
>Apple launched a couple of years ago over the use of a garbage can 
>(somehow appropriate for Apple) as an Icon by another company. As I
>recall they actually won that lawsuit (aren't lawyers wonderful).

They didn't actually sue us.  We had to pay them some
money and stop making GEM look so much like a MAC.  If
the matter had actually gone to court, we would have
had to stop selling GEM for the duration, which would
have killed the company in very short order.  This way
we get killed more slowly :-)
-- 
Mark Alexander	...{hplabs,seismo,sun,ihnp4}!amdahl!drivax!alexande
"Bob-ism: the Faith that changes to meet YOUR needs." -- Bob