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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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Subject: Look and Feel--A surprise witness?
Summary: Andy Hertzfeld (sp?)
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Date: 4 May 89 00:21:43 GMT
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I just read in ComputerWeek (not my own copy--I don't subscribe to such a
pinstripe-business publication myself) that Andy Hertzfeld (sorry about the
spelling, but I don't have the name right here) is filing a friend of the
court brief *in favor* of Microsoft and Hewlett Packard in the Apple
look-and-feel case.  He said that he couldn't have done the Mac if companies
were as look-and-feel-happy then as they are now.

This strikes me as good and bad.  Certainly Apple (Andy) borrowed a few
PARC ideas, some of which were borrowed by PARC, but they made *big*
improvements and actually brought something to the market (something Xerox
still hasn't successfully done with most of its PARC ideas): this borrowing
seems to be good.  But Microsoft's Windows is a second-rate knock-off of
the Mac (please don't flame me too much, I own MS Word :-)): this
"borrowing" is bad.


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)