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From: lbl@druhi.UUCP (LocklearLB)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 16:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 16:49:00 1985
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>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

Is this for real????!!!!!???  How in the world can Apple claim to have a
copyright on the "look and feel" of its Macintosh software when it is such a
close copy of work done at Xerox Parc?  

I don't have any legal expertise, but it looks like Apple doesn't have a leg
to stand on.  I hope that someone with some legal knowledge will comment on
this because I don't see how Apple can get away with it.

Barry Locklear
AT&T Information Systems Labs
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