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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: 3 button systems (was  A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc)
Message-ID: <13650003@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 88 17:42:11 GMT
References: <9790@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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/ hpsmtc1:comp.windows.misc / jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein) /  6:07 pm  Mar 11, 1988 /
In article <5723@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>  In other words, they'd never seen anything _but_ the mac environment so they
>must of copied the mac interface exactly. If they'd never seen a star they 
>couldn't have copied it. QED. 
>PIerce Wetter
Jeff Weinstein responds:
>>  Are you saying that no one at DRI was capable of an original thought or
>>even a bit of creativity?  That they must have copied everything from Apple 
>>if they did not copy it from Xerox?  If so you might post some evidence of th>>is.

And I answer that in this case the answer is *YES*! I remember seeing the adds
that DRI had the nerve to run which not only showed their *MacPaint Clone*
with its screen saying Hi instead of Apples add with Macpaint saying "Hello".

Then DRI has their Desktop look exactly the same as Apple's with a pull down
menues, Disk Icons on the top right hand side of the screen and a trash can
on the lower right side. About the only thing they did not have was the
Apple logo on the top left of the screen where they had *Desk Accessories*.

It is one thing to be influenced by or improve upon an existing technology, but
to mimic it completely, right down to the advertising campaign is *ASKING* for
a lawsuit. DRI was guilty of being lazy, they should have gone to Xerox in
the first place and come out with something superior to the Apple interface
and not merely a pale clone.

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