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From: lalonde@nicmad.UUCP (John Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <2581@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 14:34:44 GMT
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Reply-To: lalonde@nicmad.UUCP (John Lalonde)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp.  Madison, WI
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>|> But if companies want to use the Apple standard, then they should
>|> license it from Apple.
>|
>|Ah, but did Apple license is from Xerox??  Did Xerox abandon their invention
>|of the interface that the Mac uses??
>
>Apple *did* license it from Xerox.  The exact amount they paid and the
>terms of the license are beyond me, but there was an agreement between
>them.

According to news reports the only technology Apple licensed from Xerox was
Smalltalk. A Xerox spokesman indicated that Apple has *not* licensed any other
type of technology from Xerox.

-- 
John LaLonde
Systems Engineering Group
Nicolet Instrument Corporation
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