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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple gets favorable ruling
Keywords: Apple, Microsoft, lawsuits, HP
Message-ID: <568@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 18:36:55 GMT
References: <6271@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1068@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <37812@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Distribution: usa
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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Just my two cents worth...

Much as I love my Apples here at home, it makes me sick to see how sue-happy
Apple is.  I'd like nothing more than to see Apple *LOSE* and see a lot of
this clone lawsuit garbage quit.

I think all of Apple's lawsuits to date have really been bad for the computer
industry, especially for the creation of new materials for Apple computers
and the like.

Consider this: suppose that someone had copyrighted the "look and feel" of
a book.  Then you couldn't write a book without either licensing or violating
copyright.

Before you know it, we won't be able to think without violating copyright
in our thoughts somehow.  ("STOP THINKING THAT THOUGHT! It's copyrighted!")

          [david]

PS: Did someone forget comp.sys.apple???  Imagine my surprise to find this
    discussion ONLY in comp.sys.ibm.pc! (I don't read either comp.sys.mac
    or comp.windows.ms ...)



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