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From: wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
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: <620@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 15:28:29 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu> <4328@b-tech.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation
Summary: Look and Feel

In article <4328@b-tech.UUCP>, zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
> I think a solution to these "look and feel" suits is for products to be
> shipped with a user selectable interface.  The user could arrange the menus
> and select the icons that he wants to use.  If he happens to select something
> that looks like someone else's interface, it's not the developers problem.
This is exactly what Borland did with Quattro.  Quattro comes with its
own interface installed but a user has the tools to install a Lotus
like interface or one of their own making.  I think that this may be
a good approach for developers of software that may infinge on another
programmers "territory".      

Whatever happened to standards?

Bill Wilson