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From: rfm%urth@Sun.COM (Richard McAllister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Credit where credit is due
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Date: 19 Mar 88 05:49:01 GMT
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Summary: Legal fights with IBM are never wise

In article <46046@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>This has all taken a new turn.  Apple announced last night it was suing HP
>>and Microsoft for the look and feel of New Wave and Windows 2.03, respectively.
>>Won't this be fun.
>
>gonna be fascinating. Even if they lose or drop it later, it ought to play
>havoc with the development of the Presentation Manager. it's even possibly
>that Apple may end up with a technology for one of the major parts of the
>new generation IBM operating system. Would that be a hoot.

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.)




Rich McAllister (rfm%urth@sun.com)