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Article #1493Re: Apple sues HP
From: David Robinson
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 11:07
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 11:07
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In article <29300003@urbsdc>, aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>
> ..> Apple vs. HP
>
> I would like to start a suit against Apple for violating
> the Xerox user interface. I would gladly contribute 50-100$
> to it, and I bet there are many people out there who feel
> similarly. Does anyone have any idea as to how to get this
> rolling?
Not that I agree with Apple's lawsuit on its legal or ethical
grounds but there is a LARGE misconception that Apple
"stole" the Xerox user interface. This is not true! Apple
signed licensing agreements with Xerox and hired away a few
of the Xerox people who worked on the user interfaces.
In a related story, AT&T has announced a new "User Friendly"
Unix user interface that is to be designed by Sun & Xerox
jointly. Comments in the WSJ article stated that they had no
fear of suit by Apple since they were licensing direct from
Xerox as Apple did originally.
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!david From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Apple sues HP Message-ID: <6177@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 12 Apr 88 11:07:58 GMT References: <29300003@urbsdc> Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL Lines: 27