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Article #74367Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins
From: David Williams
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 00:09
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 00:09
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If Apple were truly interested in shutting down everyone who mimics their interface they would have sued Cadre over the look and feel of Teamwork which rips off the Mac Window look and feel entirely. Their windows look exactly the same right down to the representation to zoom the window to a larger size. Yes Cadre does CASE software, but they don't do OS software that runs on a potential 45 million PC boxes out there. I think Apple just wanted to muddy the waters and tangle up the MicroSoft Juggernaut for while...Hp got invited to the party because originally Hp approached Apple about licensing the Mac interface...Apple declined [given their mindset today their attitude might be different] and Hp went off and "did their own" based on extending what windows had. I think that Hp looked to be a wildcard that might have felt threatening to Apple at the time [though now Windows 3 has dwarfed NeWWave]. As for all the anger from the FSF over Apple and look n feel where are the hoardes of graphical GNU tools of any form? Isn't emacs/epoch the ONLY tool which "runs" in a X Window? Why aren't all the GNU tools packaged with a graphical front end? If it isn't important to do it for FSF's own tools then why the uproar over tools on a platform that doesn't even have a need for Unix based tools? Unless A/UX is where one wants to put these.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,15ed716c9ecc1ded X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-13 04:02:52 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!unidui!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!infopiz!athertn!Atherton.COM!dlw From: dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins Message-ID: <35210@athertn.Atherton.COM> Date: 11 May 91 00:09:17 GMT References: <19050@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991May4.052108.695@visix.com> <1991May4.235033.15917@agate.berkeley.edu> <48451@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@athertn.Atherton.COM Reply-To: dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) Organization: Atherton Technology -- Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22