Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!husc6!im4u!suhler
From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Origins of the Mac Environment
Message-ID: <2662@im4u.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 19:31:25 GMT
Reply-To: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
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Organization: Univ of Texas Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
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Summary: Was it licensed?

I've heard on this newsgroup that:
1) Apple licensed the icon-based environment of the Mac from Xerox;
and
2) They didn't license it; they just copied it and Xerox didn't gripe.

Does anyone know the truth?  Please cite some written reference,
not just "I read it somewhere..."

Thanks.
-- 
Paul Suhler        suhler@cs.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903