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Article #1057Re: Are there any public domain interfaces anywhere?
From: Thom Gillespie
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 02:46
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 02:46
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In article <6162@gp.sei.cmu.edu> weh@sei.cmu.edu (Bill Hefley) writes: >Yes, but isn't this Heckel chap the same fellow who developed the Zoomracks >metaphor, patented it, sued Apple and settled out of court for some >arrangement with Apple because Hypercard does something like his metaphor? > >And you said it was just the lawyers and accountants? :-) I didn't say that Paul Heckel suggested a public domain interface, I just said the idea occurred to me after reading Heckel. Heck, maybe now that Heckel has his loot, he'll put the Zoomracks metaphor, and in the process the Hypercard metaphor, into the public domain ... and then Xerox will naturally follow and Apple won't have a metaphor to stand on. --Thom Gillespie p.s. I always thought that Zoomracks loocked metaphorically like the Appleworks screen metaphor.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!thom From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Are there any public domain interfaces anywhere? Message-ID: <34400@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 20 Feb 90 02:46:48 GMT References: <34393@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <6162@gp.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thom Gillespie) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 18