On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:53:51PM -0400, Jason T. Slack wrote:
> > Who says the icons are the same? Take a _really_ close look at both
> > http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/images/interface.gif and the
> > gimp toolbox. Mostly the only difference is the shading in the gimp
> > icons, but I suppose all you need is one pixel different. Who would
> > Adobe sue if there is a copywrite infringment? The president of gnu
> > organization? Hmm...
>
> This topic came up in course of conversation at my office today. A few
> individuals thought that the icons were copied from photoshop. So I thought
> I would ask to see if that was true.
Adobe Photoshop (and many other programs) use the Mac standard UI
icons for a lot of elements. Take a look at MacPaint sometime, for
example. So they aren't Adobe icons, actually, they're Apple icons...
Zach
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