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From: che@pbhyf.UUCP (Mitch Che)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <3002@pbhyf.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 19:33:13 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <4092@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: che@pbhyf.UUCP (823-2454-Mitch Che)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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Keywords: Apple HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <4092@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> dumesny@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Alain Dumesny) writes:
>>If there is sufficient interest, I am also willing to help
>>coordinate the development of an amicus curiae brief opposing
>>Apple's claims.
>
>NO ! !
I need a bit more information, which I hope the net can supply.. See below...

>I hope that Apple will win, and that Microsoft will have to stop Window (or
>give it a total different interface), because to me Window is a violation
>to Apple rights (did you look at the windows, scroll bars, "elevators"..., 
>there is only a few differences, like the way you select an item from a 
>menu (you don't press the mouse button down while dragging, but rather click 
>again, which I must admit is better)).
Since I've not used Windows, could someone provide more detail on this
suit?  There must be something to this "look and feel" argument that
I'm missing.  Apple isn't arguing that using a mouse, pointing at SOME kind
of icon, pulling down SOME kind of menu, etc, is not available to other
companies, are they?  Is Apple saying "Apple's windows are square and can
change size, MS can't use square windows that change size" or something else
at that level.  Or is MS Windows "origin" REALLY (wink, wink, nudge, nudge..)
blatently easy to figure out?
Inquiring minds want to know...
-- 
Mitch Che   Pacific Bell		 "Tape librarians will mount anything."
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