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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
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> 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
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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

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