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Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins

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From: David Williams
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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From: dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams)
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Subject: Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins
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