Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!bschwart From: bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Computers are toys) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: is the world ending, or what? Keywords: ideas, applications, lawsuits Message-ID: Date: 16 Dec 89 18:55:03 GMT References: <129294@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Computers are toys) Organization: The Society for Anachronistic Poetry Lines: 18 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. One hopes they win and one hopes they lose. Of course they are not doing it for vengeance--which would be nice--but rather because they smell green. Sigh. I think a better name for Apple would be "Rancid Cider". -- Barry Schwartz, Chief SAPsucker bbs@cdspr.rutgers.edu Grad Student, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engg. bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu Rutgers University College of Engg. bbs@hankel.rutgers.edu Piscataway, NJ 08854 U.S.A. rutgers!cdspr!bbs