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In <kadie.682312438@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:

*In note <1Rmicrosoft_2d8@clarinet.com> in clari.tw.computers it says
*that according to Microsoft "[a] judge has agreed to reconsider a
*claim by Apple Computer Inc.'s competitors -- Microsoft Corp. and
*Hewlett-Packard Co. -- that Apple cannot copyright the ``look and
*feel'' of its Macintosh software, ..."
*
*Microsoft and HP say that Apple's work is not original.
*--
*Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This isn't what Judge Walker ruled at all.  He ruled that Microsoft and HP
may attack the copyright on specific elements of the Mac interface.  If the
expression of the ideas is found to lack sufficient originality, then Apple
will be in bad shape.  This has absolutely nothing to do with "look and feel."
It only concerns specific icons, scrollbars, etc...  Which is after all, what
this whole thing is about.  You can't copyright the concept of icons, only
specific icons.

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