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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
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: <10207@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 1 Apr 88 18:40:37 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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What ever the merits of Apple's suit against Microsoft, I think the suit
against HP is really sleazy. Many places have published pictures of
Apple's "evidence" photos of the NewWave and Mac screens. I just found
out that these are esentially phoney.

One of the dealer papers published a picture of the real NewWave screen,
and it is completely unlike the Mac. HP *did* allow for some
customization, however, and someone at Apple spent a lot of time
(weeks?) to force it to look similar to a Mac so that they could sue.

Next they might write a dBase program which produces a screen which
looks like a Mac...

If Apple wins this one they will have effectively killed the idea of a
configurable interface, since the customer might configure it to look
like something else, but the manufacterer is the one who gets sued.

This whole thing looks *really* sleazy to me.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me