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From: jqj@uoregon.UUCP (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <1779@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 19:28:19 GMT
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Reply-To: jqj@drizzle.UUCP (JQ Johnson)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

Personally, I would prefer to see a standardized user interface (i.e.
with the SAME "look and feel") available for all the machines my
users are likely to touch.  Since we don't yet know how to design
a good user interface, this couldn't be the only one available, but
it sure would be nice if I could take a secretary who was used to
running Microsoft Word on a Mac and give him a PC running Microsoft
Word; if I did that today, I would also have to give him a course
on using DOS.

It is in the interests of the companies to protect proprietary
interfaces, but is in the interest of the users to point out the
extent to which such interfaces are based on public domain
technology.  Anyone interested in writing a "friend of the court"
brief?