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From: laba-4an@web8b.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT APPLE
Message-ID: <7850@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 88 21:11:46 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <3714@super.upenn.edu>
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Reply-To: laba-4an@web8b.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Andy McFadden)
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit
Summary: typo?

In article <3714@super.upenn.edu> adam@hyper.lap.upenn.edu (Adam Feigin) writes:
>Well folks, The so called 'copyright infringement' is just a bag full of hot
>air.....
>
>Apple did NOT 'invent' such technology......Alan Kay (Formerly of Xerox PARC,
>and now Fellow at Apple) had the original idea....It was incorporated into
>Smalltalk-80, and also happens to be incorporated in the Xerox 1108/6085 
>series, which date quite a few years before The Lisa & Mac were released.....

I'm not sure they claim to have invented it.  I believe they claim to have
a legal right to the exclusive use of certain facets of the Xerox interface.

>Please, APPLE, stop wasting the taxpayers time and money by bringing such a
>silly suit.
>
>							Adam

The TAXPAYERS time and money?  You mean, this is a criminal trial and HP
has secured a public defender?  I think you may be confused...

-- 
"Ownership is nine-tenths of the law."