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- From: cable@crs.cl.msu.edu (Dan Cable)
- Subject: Re: Gem Support Dieing?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.034556.28695@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Organization: Michigan State University
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 03:45:56 GMT
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- apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled) writes:
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- >GEM on the PC was severely crippled due to some law suit with Apple. Like
- >windows can't be sized etc.. How Atari got round this one i don't know.
- >All the GUIs around today owe alot to Apple even if they don't admit it.
- >How comes the recoverable trashcan thingy in Neo got by the board for that
- >matter ? i'm fairly sure this was copyright Apple.
-
- I think it might be more correct to say that all the GUIs around today owe a
- lot to Xerox PARC and not to Apple. I am, however, somewhat suprised too that
- Gribnif didn't at least get a "cease and desist" letter from Apple's
- attorneys.
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