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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple gets favorable ruling
Keywords: Apple, Microsoft, lawsuits, HP
Message-ID: <5182@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 18:41:49 GMT
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Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <564@apexepa.UUCP> peter@apexepa.UUCP (Peter Palij) writes:

}I think 25-Mar-89 _The Economist_ put it best:

}... At stake is technology that promises to make computers easier to
}use.  Clear ownership of user-interface technology would put Apple in
}a commanding market position. It would drastically alter competition
}and innovation. Imagine what might have happened had an early carmaker
}managed to patent the steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals.

Such a patent did, at one time, exist - at least in the U.S.  Henry Ford
fought it and won.

regards, Larry
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Signed: Larry A. Shurr (att!cbnews!cbema!las or osu-cis!apr!las)
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(With apologies to the real thing.  The above represents my views only.)