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From: wnp@chinet.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <4602@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 08:32:51 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <663@csm9a.UUCP> <4283@dandelion.CI.COM> <13520@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <453@xroads.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@chinet.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

In article <453@xroads.UUCP> tgm@xroads.UUCP (Sloan Tash) writes:
>Wouldn't that just be a shame (if Apple won..). The other companies would have
>to come up with their own ideas. Given that Apple did take the concept from
>Xerox, they developed it far beyond anything Xerox did. If the other companies
>want to take the same ideas that Apple started with, I don't think there would
>be a problem.. It's that they want to take Apple's ideas straight across.

Not quite. Last week's Infoworld showed a photograph of the HP New Wave display
as distributed by HP, and it does not look similar to the MAC's display AT ALL.

Next to it they show a photograph of a New Wave display as filed by Apple in its
complaint, and it looks VERY SIMILAR to the MAC's display.

In other words, unlike the MAC's display, the HP New Wave display can be
customized very drastically by the user, which is more than can be said for
Apple's environments. Seems to me that, given that HP did take the concept from
Apple (who took it from Xerox), they developed it far beyond anything Apple did.

I don't think PC users, who know how fast their machines run in text mode would
stand for taking "Apple's ideas straight across." It would slow their machines
down too much.

Wolf Paul
wnp@chinet