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From: chasm@killer.UUCP (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <3733@killer.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 07:27:38 GMT
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Keywords: Apple HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation
Summary: not a lawyer either!

In article <2477@saturn.ucsc.edu>, lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-) writes:
>   Which brings me to the reason why I am posting... Forgive me, but I have had
> my head buried in the sand as of recent, and have heard of this "New Wave"
> product only in messages concerning this lawsuit.  What is "New Wave", what
> does it do, why is it worth suing over?  One person said something about
> "having two applications using different parts of the same data at the same
> time", which is intriguing but not very descriptive.  Is "New Wave" out yet?

Will be . . . . soon . . . . .
> . . . In _your_
> opinion, is Apple justified in its lawsuit?  Not based on your love of the Mac,
> or your love of the PC (does ANYONE _really_ love the PC?); but based on your
> somewhat solidly formed, and INformed, opinion on the products themselves.

The lawsuit is trash -- the contract they signed with Microsoft gave away
whatever they may have had then: it explicitly allows Microsoft to improve
Windows, and sell rights to H-P, and . . .

And the filing struck me as so vague and non-specific, I think Apple is going
to slow down MS/IBM/HP as much as possible, but a win in court would surprise
the Apple legal department as much as it would me!

Maybe this is Apple's way to kill "look-and-feel" forever: get a good solid
precedent (even if you have to be the loser ({:).  If so, thank God for Apple,
if not, lets keep the lawyers busy for another two years or so and add $50 to
the cost of evey package we buy! (How many lawyers are there in Japan, or even
Holland?)

Charles Marslett
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