🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Apr29.225757.5643@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:

   In article <9104292009.AA01975@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU
   (Richard Stallman) writes:

      That was the plan I started with.  **Apple is trying to make this
      illegal**.  The whole point of their lawsuit is to stop people from
      writing desktop systems.

   [...]

   If the reasons you cite for the boycott were true, I'd expect to see a
   bunch of other suits coming out of Apple, not just one accusing
   Microsoft of copyright violation.  For example, I'd expect to see them sue:

    - Visix, for a product that "looks too much like the Finder,"
    - NeXT, for things that look like the Control Panel and the Color Picker,
    - The OSF, because MOTIF has pull-down menus and controls that are
      "functionally equivalent" to Macintosh controls,
    - and so on and so on.

You shouldn't expect these lawsuits until their cost has been justified
by a legal precedent.

   Now, the fact is that Apple hasn't bothered (and in fact has encouraged)
   people who build things that don't look like a Macintosh.

This makes sense, since the normal outcome of patent litigation is
a licensing agreement.  I've been told by a patent attourney that
one should encourage patent infringement.

I hope your trust of Apple is justified.