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In article <1991Apr29.225757.5643@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
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+I disagree with you there.  The point of their lawsuit is their claim that
+Microsoft violated a contract.  The suit doesn't claim that no one else
+can "write desktop systems," even Macintosh-like ones.

Apple sued Digital Research, Inc. for that company's GEM product.
The basis of the suit was that GEM was a 'very' near but not
identical Desk Top graphical user interface to Apple's product.
DRI being a small company folded legal opposition in the face of
Apple's superior Blue suits. DRI made a 'deal' where DRI didn't
pursue GEM and got some 'contracts' from Apple.

Of course one may argue that DRI should have been as big as either
Apple or Microsoft since it had CPM and could have used that
effectively to dominate the market of small desk top system software.
But history is filled with such stories. Just think if DRI had
gotten the TRASH-80 contract, and then the IBM contract....

I haven't kept up on the HP et al. vs. Apple suit but I believe the basis
again is 'looks' and 'feel' rather than a contractual difference.
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John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu