Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple! Keywords: lawsuit over original WIMP ui... at last Message-ID: <7326@ficc.uu.net> Date: 17 Dec 89 14:28:06 GMT References: <172@comcon.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 23 In article <172@comcon.UUCP> roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: > I have had to hassle with GUI's > that are less than intuitive because they had to change little > details(to avoid Apple's legal staff). While I'm overjoyed that Xerox finally wake up and smelled the bacon, I'd love it if Apple retained a few fascist look-n-feel copyrights on some of the stupider "innovations" they came up with for the Mac. They're easy to figure out: they're all based on Apple's brain-damaged choice of a single button mouse: Popping the active window to the front. Pull-down menus. Double-clicking as a normal action. And the one-button mouse itself. To put it in simpler terms, I hope this doesn't lead to mindless copying of the Mac UI, warts and all. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com