Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:40238 comp.sys.mac:44599 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ctne_ltd From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: comp.sys.mac Message-ID: <4584@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 89 00:39:53 GMT References: Reply-To: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 23 In article larry@uts.amdahl.com (Larry Hardiman) writes: >Apple engages Xerox in 1979 to get a license to use >the Star interface. Xerox says OK; the two companies >come to some financial arrangement over the transaction. Wrong. Apple did nothing of the sort. They just saw Xerox's work at some introductory gathering and copied it. >If so, then Apple's suits against Microsoft and HP may >indeed have some merit (I'm no lawyer). If Xerox's agreement [stuff deleted ...] >Following this line of reason: Do Microsoft and HP have >licenses with Xerox? Your guess is as good as mine. Yes they do. And if I remember right, so does Sun, and a couple of other corporations that market GUIs. -- >>>> Chris Newbold <<<< * "If you fool around with a thing for very long you * University of Rochester * will screw it up." * Disclaimer: "All warranties expire upon payment of invoice." ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu * uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ctne_ltd@uunet