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From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz)
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
Message-ID: <1473@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 88 03:56:31 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu>
Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation


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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? i'm sure if MS does it's homework, they can trace this
stuff way back to the 60's and 70's, long before apple even existed.
this suit is like trying to copyright the english language! but it
does give apple LOTS of free press ("say anything you want about us
as long as you spell our name right"). 

what a foolish waste of court time...

-bill