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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A programs user interface
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Date: 1 Feb 90 05:06:50 GMT
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In article <3148@ssc-vax.UUCP> housen@ssc-vax.UUCP (Kevin Housen) writes:
>look and feel.  So back to my question, where does one cross the line
>from being a devoted defender of the consistent user interface
>to being labeled as a scum sucking plagairizer?

When you begin to cut into the market share of a large company which
uses a similar interface.  Note -- this does not by any means have to
be the company that invented the look and feel under discussion.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and
 danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."
    -- Aleister Crowley, THE BOOK OF LIES