Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!nsscb!njc From: njc@nsscb.UUCP (Neil Cherry) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple (was: is the world ending, or what?) Keywords: ideas, applications, lawsuits Message-ID: <1173@nsscb.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 89 14:30:59 GMT References: <129294@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2589A9A0.19275@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: njc@nsscb.UUCP (Neil Cherry (STARGRP)) Organization: AT&T NSSC S. Plainfield, NJ Lines: 6 I am glad Xerox is giving Apple a case of its own medicine. I actually disapprove of _SOME_ look and feel law suits. Especially the ones where the idea seems like common sense. This I beleive will hurt the industry, but there is a fine line between what is and what is not legal in the form of "idea copying". NJC