Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: The Lawsuit, Standardization, and Whiny DOS Users...
Message-ID: <450@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 07:29:25 GMT
References: <8685@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> <406@dinl.mmc.UUCP>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <406@dinl.mmc.UUCP>, hull@dinl.uucp (Jeff Hull) writes:
> (2) Apple is trying to copyright someone else's idea 
> (XEROX PARC).  
I thought that too. However it seems that the scientist who did most
of the work on the GUI is now a fellow at apple and they say therefore they are
now entitled to the continuted fruits of his ideas. 

Just how legal that contention is ?? Well thats up to the courts now.


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