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From: asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller)
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
Message-ID: <290@pyuxf.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 22:19:54 GMT
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In article <4041@cup.portal.com>, Jinfu@cup.portal.com writes:
> 
> I have a good idea for Ford to make some extra money, sue all
> the car makers for 'look and like' if a product has four
> wheels and a steering wheel.
> 
> Jinfu@cup.portal.com
> 
> Seriously, I am writing a letter to Apple and threatens them
> none of business purchase under my influerence will not have
> any connection with Apple.


Ford doesn't have a copyright on the automobile -- and if they
did, it would have expired by now !! :-)

By the way, I hope that you realize that you're threatening
Apple that all of your business purchases will have some
connection with Apple?

But really -- it's important to keep in mind that companies
have to attempt to enforce their copyrights in order to
maintain ownership of those rights.  If you write a book,
copyright it, and then let someone else make thousands of
bootleg copies without suing them for infringement, then it
can be argued that you have implicitly placed your book in
the public domain.  Thus, even if Apple isn't really certain
about Windows and so forth, they HAVE to sue now, in case
someone (IBM Presentation Manager?) comes out with a clear
copy later on.

Alan Geller
Bellcore

My employer has no knowledge of my opinions.  Often, I don't, either.