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From: zach@mruxb.UUCP (J Z Shoher)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Summary: Fortuitous coincidence or prescient foreboding
Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation
Message-ID: <612@mruxb.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 14:29:49 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu> <1473@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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In article <1473@alliant.Alliant.COM>, rosenkra@alliant.UUCP writes:
> apple has no way of claiming they invented (and own) window/mouse-type 
> computing environments. it seems to me that apollo was selling just that
> circa 1980. sun has suntools and NeWS. MIT/DEC/IBM/... have X. what's
> going on here? 
> 
> -bill

John Dvorak wrote a column in the latest (?) PC Magazine
(the cover announces a comparison of low-end desktop publishing pkgs)
in which he talks about:

	what users have in store for themselves if Microsoft Windows/
	IBM Presentation Manager doesn't get picked up by the user
	community. 

His thesis is that we're all in for some troubled times if this 
happens, since graphic interface technology would be left in the
hands of a company which seems to understand only the word
"proprietary". 

John wrote his column months before the Apple suit against
Microsoft and HP, but it seems to be right on the money.



Zach Shoher		"The above opinions are mine and mine alone"