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Article #1357Re: Metaphor vs. Xerox
From: Brett Glass
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1989 02:14
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1989 02:14
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An additional irony: As you may recall, IBM licensed Metaphor's interface
some months ago with the belief that it was "non-infringing" and hence
would justify their use of mice, icons, etc. in their own products.
This belief may (alas!) turn out to have been mistaken.
<BG>
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"One of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might
care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are."
Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"
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