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In article <48541@ut-emx.uucp> timbur@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Burnett) writes:
+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.

So why doesn't Apple pay Xerox? Because they got the 'interface'
from Xerox. But they don't, at least there is not public note to
that effect. Xerox lost because they sued to late.

As a matter of fact why doesn't UCSD sue since the P-system is a
direct ancestor to the menu bar. Well, Apple did buy 'rights' to the
P-system and then 'revoked' other P-system licenses held by user
groups to prevent 'grass' root P-systems from poping up (some how
this was posible, I can't recall the details).
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John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu