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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Credit where credit is due
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Date: 20 Mar 88 00:32:19 GMT
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>Um, I sure hope Apple has more sense than to get in a legal battle with IBM.
>IBM managed to exhaust the US government!  Besides, IBM will just countersue
>to enforce little things like their patent on text cursors (yes, really, and
>it has seven or eight years left to run.)

Nope. In fact one of the more interesting things about the suit is taht they
went after HP, but not IBM. I doubt that was an accident. Remember, IBM is
not doing the development for OS/2 and the PM. Microsoft is. IBM is just
licensing it. So Apple doesn't have to sue the bimmer -- they just have to
keep Micrsoft busy for a while. In fact, it's be hard for IBM to get
involved in the case directly, since their technology isn't at risk.



Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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