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

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From: John Clark
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 17:26
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In article <48451@ut-emx.uucp> timbur@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Burnett) writes:
+the right to overlapping windows, icons, trash cans, etc. However, I do believe
+if you double-click a icon, get a window, and then can drag the icon to the
+trash, that It is a mac-interface and Apple has the right to sue.

Why do you 'double' click? Is that because it is 'intuitively' clear
or because you are clicking with a one button mouse in a 2 or 3
button environment.

I don't think the 'boycott' is silly, I also don't think it will
dent Apple's momentum in the market. However, if the FSF is
successful in pointing out the 'problem' that the 'look-and-feel'
considerations are creating. For a small time developer I have two
options 1) don't go into business 2) go into business and wait to be
sued(This implies that I make enough to be 'significant').

In the latter case one can have the 'stoic' attitude that after
being sued Apple can have the dingy broken down furniture, the well worn
computer equiment; and you can file bankrupcy and go on with life.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
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Subject: Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins
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Date: 6 May 91 17:26:29 GMT
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