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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
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Date: 18 Apr 88 21:09:07 GMT
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit
Summary: Good guys tagging bases

In article <1925@bgsuvax.UUCP> ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler) writes:
>What I can't understand is:
>Why is Apple only suing Microsoft and HP?
>There seems to be many others out there like SUN windous . . .

No chance.  Sunview is very unlike the mac interface.  (No title bars,
no pulldowns, etc.) Also, Sun has agreements with Xerox (posted to
comp.windows.misc, recently, I think) covering their use of the Xerox
style popups, etc, particularly in the context of the New Look interface
(which is more Mac-like than Sunview.)

>Or did MS and HP just seem ripe for the pickin'??

There has been endless speculation over this, but the consensus seems
to be that this was the easiest set of targets for apple to gain some
kind of marketing edge by attacking.  They certainly wouldn't want to
take on IBM :-) Also, there is the chance that they are getting back at
Bill Gates for past hardball playing.

#disclaimer "Hey, what do I know?  This is usenet, remember!"

-- Scott Schwartz     schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu    schwartz@psuvaxg.bitnet