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In <1991Sep14.025539.4157@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:

>I've seen remarks here about Apple, IBM, HP, Sun, and just about everyone
>who makes a machine I'm likely to buy some day - with one exception:  NeXT.
>What is the status of the NeXT vis-a-vis software patents, interfaces, etc.?

About interface copyright:

We really don't know yet until NeXT becomes so succesful that they are
imitated. They use GNU software and they gave the Obj-C extensions to the FSF
but they did not give the code of the runtime library (as far as I know).
There use of gcc as their compiler indicates that they are smarter than the
people who waiste money buy trying to build their own buggy compiler that they
have to sell you for lots of $. The system is cheaper and their energy
directed to more important issues.

They haven't put other stuff in the public domain (It would end all GUI wars
for the moment if they put NeXTstep in the pd). Or maybe they can donate money
to the FSF...

About software patents:

I don't know.
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