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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple (was: is the world ending, or what?)
Keywords: ideas, applications, lawsuits
Message-ID: <8302@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 20:40:24 GMT
Organization: Roadkills-R-Us
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In article <1173@nsscb.UUCP> njc@nsscb.UUCP (Neil Cherry (STARGRP)) writes:
|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".

I agree. I have wondered if truly creative new look & feel stuff should
fall under "design patents" , or if we need some new categories of
whatever.

But that's a separate issue from the Apple crap. I mean, the desktop/office
metaphor just wasn't that original an idea. I have a couple of dozen
friends who all, along with myself, had discussed just such things at
Ga. Tech before we knew what a Parc was, and before the Mac was even a
(serious, anyway) gleam in Jobs' eye.

I'm sure we weren't alone!

-Miles