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What if... (was: Re: Xerox sues Apple!)

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From: Greg Brail
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1989 06:16
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What if:

Coke sued Pepsi for the "look and feel" of their soft drink?
The Wright brothers sued all the other airplane manufacturers?
Johann Sebastian Bach sued all other composers who used counterpoint?
The Beatles sued all rock musicians who grew their hair long?
East Germany sued Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania for
	opening their borders?
CompuServe sued GEnie, Delphi and America Online?
Fender sued all the other makers of the electric bass guitar?
Federal Express sued other 24-hour delivery services?
IBM sued other computer companies that used a command-line interface?
Small pizza shops that deliver in 30 minutes or less sued Dominos?
AT&T sued other makers of "touch tone" phones?
MTV sued the other video music channels?
Aspirin companies sued the makers of other pain relievers?
Levis sued other blue jeans companies?
Johnny Carson sued Arsenio Hall, Merv Griffin, David Letterman and Pat
	Sajak?
Sesame Street sued The Electric Company?
Sony sued other makers of compact disk players?
Henry Ford sued other companies that use assembly lines?
The makers of "Star Wars" sued the makers of other space-adventure movies?
Time sued Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report?
Apple sued Microsoft, and then Xerox sued Apple?

(Oops. That one really happened.)

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Subject: What if... (was: Re: Xerox sues Apple!)
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