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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 15 Dec 89 19:01:33 GMT
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In article <4540@ur-cc.UUCP> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>Well, it has finally happend.  Xerox is sueing Apple for $150million over
>Apple's use of the Xerox-developed Star graphical user interface.  I don't

  $150 million doesn't sound like a lot of money, considering Apple is a
billion dollar company (aren't they).


>IMHO, I would like to see Apple get roasted by this lawsuit...  Flames to
>/dev/null, please.

  I'm no legal expect, but I don't think Xerox has a very good case.  For one
thing, why sue now?  The Mac/Lisa interface has been out for almost 8 years, 
with virtually no change.  It's hardly like Apple all of a sudden came out
with an interface that looks like the Xerox one.  Note that this case is
different from the Apple/Microsoft case, in which Apple and Microsoft already
had an agreement.  Apple sued because they felt the changes MS made in version
2.0 of windows weren't part of their previous agreement.  

						Jeff White
						University of Pennsylvania
						jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu