Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!vette!brooks From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: GNU's not GNU... Message-ID: <23295@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 8 Apr 89 23:47:55 GMT References: <28354@apple.Apple.COM> <8158@polya.Stanford.EDU> <22643@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 13 In article rhsu@topaz.rutgers.edu (Robert Hsu) writes: > I don't think Apple is claiming ownership of graphical >user interfaces; it is simply claiming ownership of the Macintosh >graphical user interface. So it is not seeking a stranglehold on a >certain kind of computer interface; it is simply seeking a stranglehold >on its own implementation of a certain kind of user interface. >It has every right to do so. The attitude of FSF to the "look and feel" suits is quite reasonable. If Apple had written the program "make" they would no doubt be setting their lawyers upon FSF for creating and distributing "gnumake" which would be cutting into their profits. Gnumake duplicates the "look and feel" of make. brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp