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In article <8685@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> tedi@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Edward M. Ives) writes:
>  The one thing I CAN'T stand is people saying that Standardization will be
>hindered if Apple wins, and therefore THAT is why Apple should lose.

While I'm sure there is at least one person somewhere who is saying this ("No
one ever lost money underestimating the taste of the American public."), some 
of us oppose Apple's suit onstronger grounds: (1) Apple is trying to copyright
an idea (which is contrary to current law) NOT an expression of an idea (which
can be protected); and (2) Apple is trying to copyright someone else's idea 
(XEROX PARC).  

BTW, Ted, there is also a legal concept called "restraint of trade" which is 
illegal.  There seems to be some possibility the court will decide that is
an accurate description of what Apple is doing.

DEFINITION:  Setting up a strawman: creating your own, non-standard, definition
of something (which is easily rebutted) for the purpose of rebutting it &
thereby making other people who had previously been associated with the term
look bad.


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