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From: langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 16 Dec 89 18:18:14 GMT
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In article <21301@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
>The Wall Street Journal article makes it clear (to me, anyhow) that Xerox will
>have a tougher time against Apple than Apple will have against Microsoft:
>
>   [According to an intellectual-property lawyer], Xerox waited so long to sue
>   that he doubts that it can win damages.  But he said that the court might
>   agree to invalidate the Apple copyrights.

This is actually what I'd prefer to see.  When I first heard about this story,
I wanted Xerox to win the settlement, because I feel Apple deserves it for
trying to perpetrate the myth of user-interface ownership.  But then I realized
that the myth would be perpetrated even further if Xerox won.  I'd be happy if
this were one of the cases that broke the camel's back, that the judge
determines that `this is getting ridiculous,' and declares that both litigants
lose.  "Xerox: you lose because you don't own squat; Apple: you lose even more
because you don't own the interface you have attempted to monopolize lige a mad
dog for all these years.  Now get the hell out of my courtroom, both of you!"

Aahhhh.  :-)

-- 
Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner
langz@asylum.sf.ca.us   UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz   ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu
"...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"