Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!iscuva!jimc
From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Is it safe to write for OS/2 Presentation Manager
Message-ID: <1278@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 88 19:06:35 GMT
References: <17374@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
Lines: 23
Keywords: Apple interface, lawsuit

In article <17374@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes:
>
>      Given that Apple is now suing HP and Microsoft for copying the
>Apple user interface, is it legal to write applications for OS/2's
>Presentation Manager?  Will Apple be going after developers who use
>it?  Will IBM or Microsoft defend users of their product?  Has anyone
>looked into the legal issues on this?  It could be very risky to bring
>a Presentation Manager based product to market until this is cleared up.

Bingo!  I'd say Apple's suit is producing exactly the results they set out
to produce.  Generate fear and uncertainty in the people generating app's
for competing machines, thus (presumably) increasing Apple's sales.

Ain't a litigous society wonderful???

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