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From: mrm%puffin@Sun.COM (Marianne Mueller Kreuscher)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: is the world ending, or what?
Summary: Xerox sues Apple.
Keywords: ideas, applications, lawsuits
Message-ID: <129294@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 89 15:12:52 GMT
Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM
Reply-To: mrm@sun.UUCP (Marianne Mueller Kreuscher)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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The radio says Xerox is suing Apple for stealing the Star/Smalltalk
user interface for the Macinstosh.

The announcer quotes some Apple spokesworm as saying that
"applications can be copyrighted, but ideas can't."

Gosh, this warrants a purchase of the Murky News!  (San Jose Mercury
News.)