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From: rjung@sal6.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
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Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
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Date: 21 Mar 88 17:51:42 GMT
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  (No flames or anything, but...)

  I think this is another sign of Apple's "anything with a mouse and a window
is OURS" attitude going too far.

  I hope the courts throw this **STUPID** case out of the courts, and establish
the fact that a USER-INTERFACE shouldn't be copyrighted.


						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. Gosh, if I had thought of this sooner, I could have copyrighted the use
of a KEYBOARD, and put hundreds of people out of work waaay back in the
beginning of computer-history...
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