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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Xerox sues Apple (was: is the world ending, or what?)
Keywords: ideas, applications, lawsuits
Message-ID: <2589A9A0.19275@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 89 02:34:08 GMT
References: <129294@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Ron Guilmette <rfg@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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In article <129294@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> mrm@sun.UUCP (Marianne Mueller Kreuscher) writes:
>The radio says Xerox is suing Apple for stealing the Star/Smalltalk
>user interface for the Macinstosh.

Yep.  I just heard it too on the Nightly Business Report.  Xerox sues
Apple for $150 Million (and that ain't small change).

Perhaps someone from LPF will comment as to whether this is viewed as
bad (after all, it is another one of these suits that they have been
fighting against) or good (i.e. is Xerox doing this simply as a means of
lodging the most intense possible protest over Apple's own suits?).

If Xerox is doing this as a way to send a strong and clear message to
Apple and to the rest of the industry that this kind of legal harrasment
should stop, then that's good.  If they just see a quick way to make a few
bucks, then that's not so good (but it is nice to see Apple getting a
taste of its own medicine anyway).

// rfg