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From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Apple sues HP
Message-ID: <6177@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 12 Apr 88 11:07:58 GMT
References: <29300003@urbsdc>
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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In article <29300003@urbsdc>, aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
> 
> ..> Apple vs. HP
> 
> I would like to start a suit against Apple for violating
> the Xerox user interface. I would gladly contribute 50-100$
> to it, and I bet there are many people out there who feel
> similarly. Does anyone have any idea as to how to get this
> rolling?

Not that I agree with Apple's lawsuit on its legal or ethical
grounds but there is a LARGE misconception that Apple
"stole" the Xerox user interface.  This is not true!   Apple
signed licensing agreements with Xerox and hired away a few
of the Xerox people who worked on the user interfaces.

In a related story, AT&T has announced a new "User Friendly"
Unix user interface that is to be designed by Sun & Xerox
jointly.  Comments in the WSJ article stated that they had no
fear of suit by Apple since they were licensing direct from
Xerox as Apple did originally.

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