Article View: gnu.misc.discuss
Article #74332Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 16:47
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 16:47
17 lines
1574 bytes
1574 bytes
In article <5w2V216w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >Of course no graphical GNU tools exist. Until the Apple/Microsoft lawsuit is >settled, nobody in the FSF knows what might and might not be covered by user >interface copyright. There's no point producing a mouse, icons and menus >version of GNU Emacs if Apple can prevent its distribution. Oh, come on now! I can open any PC mag and find literally hundreds of companies selling graphical toolkits. Apple's suit doesn't seem to have slowed them down any. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1991May14.164750.4789@alphalpha.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgulReferences:
<35211@athertn.Atherton.COM> <5w2V216w164w@mantis.co.uk>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,15ed716c9ecc1ded X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-15 23:42:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins Keywords: GNU,GNU,GNUI Message-ID: <1991May14.164750.4789@alphalpha.com> Date: 14 May 91 16:47:50 GMT References: <35211@athertn.Atherton.COM> <5w2V216w164w@mantis.co.uk> Organization: none Lines: 17