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From: dave@sun.soe (Dave Goldblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SEA & I'm not happy!
Message-ID: <1358@sun.soe>
Date: 15 Sep 88 15:12:13 GMT
References: <1894@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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From article <1894@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, by anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar):
> In article <1988Sep13.185106.14193@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>>   Au contraire, mon ami.  It IS good for the industry (software, that is).
>>How would YOU like it if YOU wrote a new program which revolutionalizes the
>>way people think about computers, and everyone else started copying you?
> 	Au contraire:  it's good for Apple, who stole it from Xerox, who's
> to weak to sue them...

Actually, Apple signed a licensing agreement with Xerox for the NONEXCLUSIVE
right to the techniques developed at PARC.

At least one other company, Sun Microsystems, has also signed such a license
agreement.

Besides, I'm sure Xerox could sue Apple if they deigned to.  I wouldn't
exactly call them a "weak" company.. :-)

-dg-

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