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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <21571@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 88 23:43:51 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <663@csm9a.UUCP> <4283@dandelion.CI.COM> <10322@steinmetz.ge.com> <1872@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <1872@bgsuvax.UUCP> ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler) writes:
|In article <10322@steinmetz.ge.com>, vita@macbeth.steinmetz (Mark F. Vita) writes:
|> 
|> Yes, I agree that standards are a good thing.  However, a company
|> which INVENTS a standard should have some control over its usage.
|> 
|> 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.

Apple may or may not have a good case, but they licensed the original
and spent quite a lot making it even better.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu