Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Lawson English
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:30

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Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
: marke@nwlink.com (Mark Eaton) wrote:
: ] > ] I hope that settles this.
: ] > 
: ] > It does.  Thank you for your research.
: ] > 
: ] 
: ] Thank you for your admission of fallacy. Next time do a little research of
: ] your own before spouting off like you know what you are talking about.

: That was a one-line fallacy because I didn't happen to have full
: reference materials on hand (they were at home and I can't post
: from home yet).

: One line is hardly "spouting off".

: There are many thinks for which Apple has taken credit which they
: did not invent.  Consider the "trashcan" lawsuit against Digital
: Research for GEM -- the beginning of "lok and feel" lawsuits (OK,
: Apple did invent those -- let's all thank Apple).

What GUI's used trashcans before the Mac? ANd the look and feel lawsuit 
was tossed out due to Apple's lawyers' incompetence Way Back When when 
Apple and MS signed the first GUI agreement.


: Invalidating one bad example (which has already been admitted to
: be bad) hardly invalidates the major point.


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