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rainer@ki6.ki4.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Rainer Joswig) writes:
> Maybe the LPF should talk directly with Apple representatives before
> calling for a boycott. Has this been done? Why do I see so many GUIs
> around, beside Apple's (Dynamic Windows, OpenWindows, Motif, ...)?
> Apple's lawyers must be very wealthy if Apple is sueing them all?

They're not.  They started with Digital Research, because GEM was the earliest
Mac-like interface for PCs.  DR caved in, so now Apple have gone on to attack
Microsoft because Microsoft Windows and the PC are in direct competition with
the Mac.  If Apple win against Microsoft, it seems more than likely that
they will go on to attack the next target.  And of course, because this
time the argument has gone to court, they might succeed in getting some
sort of legal precedent which will allow them to attack others more easily.

> There are so many ways to have a GUI and *not* being a Macintosh lookalike.

Yes, but there aren't many ways to have a GUI and not use features which
Apple considers its own -- resizable windows on the screen to show your
files, menus which appear when you click the mouse button, and so on --
unless you're willing to make your GUI very clunky and counter-intuitive.


mathew

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