Path: utzoo!yunexus!xrtll!mark
From: mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: uSoft/Apple and user interfaces
Message-ID: <341@xrtll.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 14:46:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: xrtll.341
References: <9025@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Wcom, Toronto, Ont
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In article <9025@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Dr. R. Chandra) writes:
> In all the stuff I've read recently on the copyright infringement suit
> brought by Apple against MicroSoft for Windows 2.03, I have to wonder:
> 
> Why did Commodore-Amiga's Intuition interface not enter into the suit?
> Why did Tandy's DeskMate interface not enter into the suit?
> 
> So my basic question is: why leave these guys alone and only go after
> uSoft and HP???
> ---
Probably because both C-A and Tandy sales together do not add up to uSoft
sales.  Why is HP in the fray?  I'm not sure about that one!  Perhaps Apple
felt they were going to chase after the same market (which neither Tandy nor
C-A are REALLY doing.  You can rest assured that if they succeed, Tandy C-A
and even sun (?) are next on the list.  However, it's a matter of the
investement.  Since uSoft represents so much lost revenue for Apple, they
feel justified in spending the dough to fight this battle.

It's quite obvious that if they should win, everyone else (inclusing IBM
with their PS/2) will be knocking on their door to hammer out the details of
a "liscensing" agreement.

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