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- From: pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli)
- Subject: Re: Gem Support Dieing?
- Message-ID: <9_cy19m@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1992Aug16.034556.28695@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 13:48:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.034556.28695@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> cable@crs.cl.msu.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
- >apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- Well, I don't know for sure but I think Apple may not have considered GEM
- on the Atari platform to be much of a threat to their market share. At least
- not big enough to justify any legal expenses they would've incurred. Now
- IBM on the other hand...
-
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