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From: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <1164@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 21:24:49 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu> <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <20952@amdcad.AMD.COM> <872@artecon.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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In article <872@artecon.UUCP> macbeth@artecon.UUCP (David Macy-Beckwith) writes:
<In article <20952@amdcad.AMD.COM> rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes:
<<In article <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub) writes:
<<>Don't laugh. As I recall, either RCA or GE has a patent on the use of CRTs
<<>for display of alpahnumeric characters generated as a scanned dot matrix.
<<
<<This is TRUE! ...as we learned at Fortune Systems a few years ago. And by
<<the way, it's RCA, and the patent covers virtually any scanned dot matrix.
<<If you make video displays, eventually RCA comes a'knocking...
<
<And boy, that sure put the kibosh on creativity and development in the video
<display arena, didn't it?

There is an essential difference. RCA is willing to license the patent and
for a reasonable fee, at that. Apple is *not* willing to license at *any*
(reasonable?) price. Remember, HP *tried* to get a license.

(followups are directed to misc.legal and comp.misc as those are the only two
groups this *realy* bleongs in.)

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