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From: joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Copy rights?(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <4064@peora.ccur.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 15:04:54 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <14970@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <588@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp, Orlando FL
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In article <588@nems.dt.navy.mil>, lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon) writes:
>
> Apple took advantage of the fact that legal protection of software
> hadn't kept up with the economic value of software, and didn't license
> technology from anyone, nor give them credit for their work.

I may be mistaken, but when all the hooraw started about the
Apple-Microsoft suit, I thought that it was stated that Apple did license
technology from Xerox, and that what Apple gave Microsoft was a
sub-license, plus a license for the innovations in the Xerox interface
embodied in the Mac.  I suspose it is possible that Xerox thinks that
Apple has violated their licensing aggreement in some way.
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