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From: runyan@hpirs.HP.COM (Mark Runyan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM and RISCy Business (another legal battle a la Apple)
Message-ID: <3880001@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 88 15:37:52 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>/ hpirs:comp.arch / exodus@mfgfoc.UUCP (Greg Onufer) / 11:21 am  Jul  6, 1988 /
>If you can't compete, at least inhibit the competition.  Why are they 
>following Apple's (look'n'feel) lead?

While I tend to agree that the idea that "IBM created RISC" annoys me,
I'd like to point out that there is a difference between patent
violation that IBM is claiming and copyright violation which I think
that Apple is claiming.  A patent violation might be easier to
prove than "look'n'feel" copyright violations

Mark "...but I'm not a lawyer..." Runyan