Yes, apple sued microsoft in the early 80's for
stealing the GUI from them but microsoft argued
successfully that GUI is the future of computing and
as such copyrighting it is akin to trying to copyright
"book" or "magazine". This ruling is atleast
partially responsible for Linux being able to be
distributed with macOS and winOS style GUI's without
fear of legal reprisals.
Cool huh?
Dacia
--- Adrian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox
> that was going to sue apple, they came up with the
> GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get
> it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not
> something they could claim as their own.
>
> >Romanator wrote:
> >
> >> Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't
> original. Isn't it a
> >> derivative?
>
> A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't
> recall the title, I read
> too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue
> Microsoft for copying
> the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface.
>
> Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and
> threatened to sue Apple for
> the same thing if they were going on with that. Old
> film and paper
> documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting
> with mouses etc.
> already long before Apple got the idea.
>
> (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as
> the company, but that
> is how I remember it.)
>
> Paul
>
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
> Telecom Dept.
> x 7042
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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