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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Toilet Bowl Icon / Apple
Message-ID: <1017@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 02:39:20 GMT
References: <24@imspw6.UUCP>
Organization: National University, San Diego
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in article <24@imspw6.UUCP>, bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) says:
> I would like to suggest that software developers who lack the funds
> to fight legal wars over the extent to which their trash can resembles
> Apple's begin to use a new icon for file deletion:  a sort of an avante-
> guard toilet bowl, the lower section of which resembles a big red apple,
> halved and cored.  Seems kind of fitting.


I don't know about that, the Apple is a registered trade mark.  Though
I hear that Apple Computer Inc. Is intending to sue the state of 
Wahsington for in-accurately portraying themselves as the "apple
state" when they havent purchased a sufficient amount of hardware
from their local Apple(r) distributers.

I think the answer to all this is very simply this:

	Every icon in any windowing environment should wear a disclaimer.


"This [fill in name of icon, as in "trash can"] is fictional
any similarity to any other [name of icon], living or dead,
is purely coincidental."

Jus imagine dragging that around the screen.....

Rob.