Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
>
> 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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Money and greed. Makes for a great movie.(I think it's been done)
But it's in an ongoing process.
Very cool.
--
Roman
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