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From: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 18 Dec 89 19:28:45 GMT
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Reply-To: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Esther Lumsdon)
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I saw somewhere in one of Commodore's Amiga manuals, a statement giving
credit to Xerox.  I know that some of the GUI vendors have purchased
licenses from Xerox for the icon & mouse concepts.

On a side note, IEEE Computer magazine had a fascinating article about
the Xerox Star machnie sometime during the past 8 months.

Go Xerox!

Taking a __long__ side trip, changes in patent laws have made is possible
to patent software under certain conditions. It goes something like....
you can patent the software that controls the flight path of a missile,
or controls a physical device that controls a process or device, but
you can't patent the software that controls a computer part or peripheral.

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Esther Lumsdon
David Taylor Research Center
Annapolis Lab  cm 301-267-3816   av 281-3816