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From: mark@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mark Storin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <1439@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 14:39:51 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <9097@asylum.SF.CA.US> <9105@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Reply-To: mark@lakesys.UUCP (Mark Storin)
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In article <9105@asylum.SF.CA.US> langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) writes:
>In article <9097@asylum.SF.CA.US> sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher) writes:
>>In article <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.mdu writes:
>>>
>>>OK, if Xerox were to win, wouldn't they also claim copyright over Windows,
>>>NeXT Step, etc.?
>>
>>NeXT is already paying licensing fees to Xerox, and has been since
>>almost the very beginning.
>
>Sun also licenses from Xerox for their Sunview window system.
>

I am told AT&T also licenses from Xerox for Open Look.  Looks like the
industry already recognizes Xerox as the defacto owners of the technology.
This, I would believe, could only help Xerox.

What I'd like to see is Xerox win just to put Apple in their place and then
turn around and grant licences for the technology at some rediculously low
price (to everyone but Apple that is :-).



-- 
Mark A. Storin
Lake Systems, Milw., WI
mark@lakesys.lakesys.COM