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coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:

   If Apple intended to claim that these other interfaces infringed
   their copyrights, they would have been forced to sue by now. The
   slippery slope argument that an Apple victory would lead to
   cascading lawsuits simply ignores the realities of copyright law.

Indeed.  Selective enforcement is not permitted by copyright law.
Also, it is hardly the case that "Apple can't afford to sue anyone
else until after they finish with Microsoft."  Apple is one of the
most cash-rich companies in the industry (over half a *billion*
dollars in cash by the last estimate I saw); they can certainly
afford to send a few more threatening letters in order to protect
their copyright claims.  They haven't.  Seems pretty straightforward
as long as we don't assume a priori that Apple is an Evil Empire...


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