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timbur@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Burnett) writes:
>      Society derives a benefits. Innovative companies can stay in business. I
> anyone can copy someones ideas after a company spends 4+ years designing it,
> the few companies will take the risk. Society will receive user interfaces
> that are rushed to market because companies will not spend the resources to
> develop better ideas

Read the LPF introductory documents; they deal with this point.

Apple, Xerox and others felt it was worthwhile to do the research even before
the idea of user interface copyright had been devised. Why shouldn't that be
the case again?

It's also the case that there is plenty of research going on in the academic
world. We don't need to bribe companies by giving them a monopoly in the
market.

> Very few on the Macintosh interfaces ideas are "trivialities". Many have been
> designed through extensive and expensive research. Other companies should
> have to pay for that research if they want the result.

Please name some Mac look-and-feel ideas which are not trivial, and which came
from Apple research.


mathew