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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <869@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 11:55:10 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <249@sdti.UUCP>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <249@sdti.UUCP>, mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young) writes:
> I think the real issue here is whether or not the copyrights are valid.  I
> have a philosophical problem with copyrighting 'look and feel'.  But even
> given that the copyrights were granted, why didn't Apple grant HP a
> license?  Probably because they wanted to charge a royalty, which HP
> refused to pay.  What good is a copyright/patent if you can't profit
> from it?

I can't see that this would be the problem, since HP has no problems
paying royalties to Microsoft (MS-DOS, Windows), AT&T (UNIX), and no
doubt gobs of other places.

This is posted to comp.misc and comp.windows.misc only. Massive and frivolous
crossposting is grounds for being called all sorts of names, even if you
can't be sued for it.
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