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In article <1991Oct30.122959.7780@donau.et.tudelft.nl>,
thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Thomas Okken) says:

>fighting in the courts are unfair tactics by competitors: stealing code and
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Oh really? You hurt your arguments when you mix issues of coding and ideas.

>If any of this has affected alternative, *original* GUIs like Motif and
>other X-based GUIs, I have not heard about it. The *need* to stop Apple is

It is very unclear how "original" one must be to avoid being sued by Apple.

>You also reiterate the unsubstantiated claim that Apple is out to kill all
>competing GUIs. But still I see Amigas, Ataris, PC running MS Windows, not
>to mention all those Unix boxes with GUIs. Apple *has* sent its lawyers at
>Commodore and Atari, because their GUIs were obvious copies of the Mac, and
>after the designs were modified, it has left them alone.

This is wrong. Apple has not sued or threatened Commodore or Atari. They did
threaten DRI about GEM (used in the Atari ST), and DRI agreed to make
superficial modifications to placate Apple. For this Apple was royally
flamed in BYTE and other magazines. Too bad XEROX lost their suit against
Apple. Is Apple going to sue XEROX for infringement now? :-) Who knows,
they might win. :-)