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Article #1225Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1985 11:29
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1985 11:29
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> There is a difference between a patent and a copyright. What Apple apparently > has is a patent, since a copyright would not prevent anybody from recreating > from scratch software with the same functionality (consider the GNU effort). Yes it could. Look at the PAC-MAN wars a while ago. Apple is suing DRI on the exact same grounds. They're almost certain to go after AMIGA next. I'm mad as hell about this bovine excrement, myself. GEM isn't even anywhere near being a good copy of the Mac desktop in function: it just looks like it. Also, UNIX isn't protected by patent (except for set-uid bits) or copyright, but by trade- secret protection (they reckon it's too hard to reverse engineer, I guess).
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <279@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 07:29:11 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.279 Posted: Wed Oct 9 07:29:11 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Oct-85 06:12:42 EDT References: <2750@vax4.fluke.UUCP> <12148757255.8.MRC@SIMTEL20.ARPA> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 10