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In <3vrfmb$ffq@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:

>In article <danpop.807284352@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>
>|> Apple was the first one to include the results of this research
>|> work into a commercially successful product.
>
>Apple took the risk, and made computers easy to use.  Microsoft
>then copied Apples work.

And Apple copied somebody else's work.  This is how the human society
is progressing.  Nobody is required to reinvent the wheel.  Nobody can
patent an idea.  Otherwise, someone would have patented the idea of using
the base 2 in electronic computers, long ago :-)
>
>Microsoft did not spend nearly as much time working on the basic
>human-factors aspects of Windows.  It shows.  Microsoft took advantage
>of the fine print in an earlier deal with Apple, and made Apple sign a
>license for some windowing technology; Apple got little if anything
>for their work.  In the user interface lawsuit, Microsoft claimed that
>everything they copied from the Macintosh was covered by that license;
>Apple claimed that the license was much more restrivtive.  Apple lost,
>and now Microsoft is copying every feature they can.

Who cares?  Windows is still worse than MacOS, but (apparently) not
worse enough to convince people to migrate.

Your points are moot, because most operating systems are providing GUIs
today.  Those who don't are rather the exception than the rule.  And Apple
isn't the first company to come with a commercial product with a GUI.
Apollo Domain had it before the Mac.  Apple was the first with a
product targeted to the mass market.

Has Apple sued MIT for X or OSF for Motif or DEC for the VMS GUI?

Dan
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