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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.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't both concepts (double-clicking
and the trashcan) exist in Xerox GUI's before the first Mac was ever
produced?  I know that the trashcan was; a Xerox employee demonstrated
it to me in 1982.

Double-clicking is what you do on a one-button mouse to simulate a two-
or three- button mouse.  It hardly should be a copyrightable or patentable
concept.

In the November 1983 Byte, two of the designers of the Apple Lisa admit
that they went over to Xerox PARC, looked at the GUIs there, went right
back to Apple and changed their GUI to match.  They freely admitted it
because the notion of "look and feel copyright" did not exist in 1983.

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