Re: Windows 95 hoopla

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:05

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christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
>In article <412iho$imv@DGS.dgsys.com>, salgak@dgs.dgsys.com (Keith Glass) writes:
>
>|> Now, to the argument at hand:  Apple has tried to sue people before for 
>|> stuff that they didn't own: remember the "look-and-feel" lawsuits of the 
>|> mid-80's ????
>
>Apple owns a copyright on the Macintosh "look-and-feel".  They tried
>to protect that copyright by suing someone whose look and feel was
>"too similar". 
>

It would be more correct to say that Apple claims ownership of a copyright.
Am I correct that they were not successfull in making that claim of ownership
stick?

-- 
Jim Williams.

Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Windows 95 hoopla
Date: 24 Aug 1995 16:05:06 GMT
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