Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!emory!phssra From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: NeXT boycott--why not? (was Re: Finder Open Wish) Message-ID: <4259@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 01:17:56 GMT References:<7259@microsoft.UUCP> <35921@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4253@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <35960@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson) Distribution: gnu Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta Lines: 31 On 6 Aug 89 18:41:51 GMT, phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson) said: >S> The issue here wasn't the program's functionality--there have been other, >S> similar programs available for the Mac--but that it looked exactly like the >S> Browser, at a time when NeXT was trying to establish its computer as >S> something new and different. In article <35960@bu-cs.BU.EDU> ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes: >Right. "It looked exactly like the Browser." Yes, it even displayed a NeXT icon when it couldn't get a file's own icon. >Visual interface was the problem, not functionality, right? >Sounds like a certain computer "for the rest of us." If I'm not mistaken, what people are worried about in this group is not the particular graphic image used to represent a trash can, but rather the idea of a trash can as a place to drag a file to delete it. Apple's idea of "visual interface" includes the latter, along with overlapping windows, etc. >Admittedly, there was no lawsuit involved--but my question is whether one >was threatened or not. (A threat can have as chilling an effect as a >lawsuit, as Digital Research's GEM would illustrate.) I do not recall any mention of lawsuits, threatened or otherwise, in the withdrawal note the author posted. * * ** Scott Robert Anderson gatech!emoryu1!phssra * * * ** phssra@unix.cc.emory.edu phssra@emoryu1.bitnet * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *