Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac Subject: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <3208@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 15:43:44 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.3208 Posted: Tue Oct 1 15:43:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 07:18:02 EDT Organization: Ninja Ewok Training Grounds Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.micro.atari:1243 net.micro.mac:2808 There is an article in the 10/1 issue of the San Jose Mecury News with the announcement that DRI has agreed to (effective 11/15) stop supporting the current version of GEM and to ship a modified version to avoid charges of copyright violations of Apple's software. Apple has claimed that GEM copied "The look and feel" or its Macintosh software and violated Apple's copyright. GEM uses, among other things, windowns, drop-down menus, and icons that substantially resemble the Mac. -- :From under the bar at Callahan's: Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,pyramid}!nsc!chuqui If you can't talk below a bellow, you can't talk...