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Re: Apple loses "look and feel" lawsuit (forwarded)

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From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:58
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In article <BsuIK7.32F@news.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>I doubt that Sculley has ever heard of Richard Stallman.  I'd
>be willing to wager that Roel Pieper, chairman of Unix Systems
>Laboratory, hasn't heard of Stallman either, or doesn't care.
>Pieper is chairman of Unix Systems Laboratory, which is currently 
>suing UC Berkeley and BSDI in a case that many people, including 
>some LPF members, regard as a 'look and feel' case.

You'd lose that wager, I'd wager.  ;-) I'm quite sure that both, John
Sculley, and Roel Pieper have heard of Richard Stallman, the GNU
project, and the League for Programming Freedom.  Whether or not they
consider these things to be significant in any way is a different
question, but any executive worth their salt would at least get some
information about a group, however small, that is taking political
action against their organization.  They may have taken a brief look
and decided that the LPF wasn't a threat, but but it's practically
impossible that they are blind to the _existence_ of the LPF and FSF.
Only IBM could be _that_ moronic.  8-)
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