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From: des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth)
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Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
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Date: 9 Mar 88 00:54:28 GMT
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stuart@ihlpf.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes:
>bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Dziegielewski) writes:
>> >Apple sued DRI for blatantly ripping off the Mac user interface, ...
>> Nobody has yet been able to explain to me why Xerox didn't sue Aple
>> for "blatantly ripping off" the UI features developed, or at least
>> solidified, during PARC's glory days.  You know the ones: pull-down
>> menus, icons, and such-like stuff.  ...
>
>This is an argument I've seen over and over.  But I think a lot of people
>don't realize that *Apple* invented Pull-down menus.

I dunno about this.  Xerox certainly does have menus which pop when
you hit a mouse button over an item with several choices.

Does anybody really know who licensed what, who is a thief, and
who is creative?  I certainly have seen nothing "new" about the
Mac interface over the Xerox stuff.

Note that Xerox is now touting "rooms" which sound alot like the
Mac.  Anybody actually using XDE, Viewpoint, or the other Xerox
environments care to comment?