Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:6228 comp.sys.ibm.pc:16059 comp.windows.misc:539 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!David_Yoshio_Macias From: David_Yoshio_Macias@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.) Message-ID: <6093@cup.portal.com> Date: 31 May 88 06:00:03 GMT References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <663@csm9a.UUCP> <4283@dandelion.CI.COM> <13520@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <453@xroads.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 28 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.4126 > Wouldn't that just be a shame (if Apple won..). The other companies would > have > to come up with their own ideas. Given that Apple did take the concept from > Xerox, they developed it far beyond anything Xerox did. If the other > companies > want to take the same ideas that Apple started with, I don't think there > would > be a problem.. It's that they want to take Apple's ideas straight across. > > tgm > crash!xroads!tgm > -- > \ / C r o s s r o a d s C o m m u n i c a t i o n s > \/ (602) 971-2240 > /\ (602) 992-5007 300|1200 Baud 24 hrs/day > / \ ihnp4!crash!xroads!* I think a point mentioned earlier was that Microsoft, while definitely borrowing some ideas from Xerox, Apple, et al, actually did extend and modify the Mac interface, much like Apple did to the Xerox interface it borrowed from. Once again, what's wrong with a little competition? Roy Bixler ...!sun.portal.cup.com!david_yoshio_macias P.S. I have nothing to do with Portal, except that me and my friend Dave pay them for Usenet access.