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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Summary: The Inferior Man will sue anyone.
Message-ID: <10320@well.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 08:53:01 GMT
References: <3234@sugar.uu.net> <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> <10870@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <10870@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Wouldn't that annoy Apple? Give the users the tools to build their own
>Mac-like interface if they want. There'd be nothing they could do.
>
	Wanna bet?

	HP's windowing environment (sorry, forget the name) was completely
configurable by the user.  The default was not too similar to the Mac
"desktop".  Someone at Apple got a hold of one of these, fiddled with it for
a while, and ended up with something that looked pretty close to the Mac
"desktop".

	Apple sued HP and MicroSoft because of it.  Ta da.

	I wish people would start innovating again...

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