Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!uunet!brunix!doorknob!gjb From: gjb@cs.brown.edu (Greg Brail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: What if... (was: Re: Xerox sues Apple!) Message-ID: Date: 25 Dec 89 06:16:58 GMT Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 33 What if: Coke sued Pepsi for the "look and feel" of their soft drink? The Wright brothers sued all the other airplane manufacturers? Johann Sebastian Bach sued all other composers who used counterpoint? The Beatles sued all rock musicians who grew their hair long? East Germany sued Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania for opening their borders? CompuServe sued GEnie, Delphi and America Online? Fender sued all the other makers of the electric bass guitar? Federal Express sued other 24-hour delivery services? IBM sued other computer companies that used a command-line interface? Small pizza shops that deliver in 30 minutes or less sued Dominos? AT&T sued other makers of "touch tone" phones? MTV sued the other video music channels? Aspirin companies sued the makers of other pain relievers? Levis sued other blue jeans companies? Johnny Carson sued Arsenio Hall, Merv Griffin, David Letterman and Pat Sajak? Sesame Street sued The Electric Company? Sony sued other makers of compact disk players? Henry Ford sued other companies that use assembly lines? The makers of "Star Wars" sued the makers of other space-adventure movies? Time sued Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report? Apple sued Microsoft, and then Xerox sued Apple? (Oops. That one really happened.) -greg +----------------------------------------------------+ Greg Brail Internet: gjb@cs.brown.edu BITNET: gjb@browncs.bitnet UUCP: ..uunet!brunix!gjb Home: (401)863-6284