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From: gbs
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1987 16:37

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>take a look at IM, for instance. This is in spite of the name change;
>if they are so polite about such a detail, I wonder why they didn't sue
>the **** out of Microsoft for copying their interface in a blatant way
>(but then again, it must be fun to be able to say in an ad: "IBM finally
>started using a pointing device - aka mouse - 6 years after we put balls
>into them.)
>   Sorry about the above, but since there is no comp.mac.gossip ...
>                                         Eric Behr

Apple did NOT invent the mouse, the window or anything else intrinsic
to the MacIntosh (or Amiga or MS-Windows) environment, they couldn't
successfully sue anyone for anything. Lawyers looking for a client
are refered to Xerox and the origional Smalltalk prototype systems that
goes back , what is it ? almost 10 years now?
-- 
Gideon Sheps
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