Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Roy replied:

>whoisthis wrote:
<snip>
>> http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
>> " The letters do seem to agree that the Macs UI was created at Apple, by 
>> Apple and for Apple. And that little if any Xerox work was taken, and 
>> the Mac was in a completely different universe. Some broad concepts were 
>> in common, but that is about it. Apple furthered those concepts, 
>> developed their own, and had totally different implementations"
>
>Which is why the threatened suit against DRI's GEM was bogus. All of the 
>above was true of GEM, which was in development concurrently with 
>Lisa/Mac. And Apple knew, and approved of it.

But the nature of the suit, and several others of the day, was not about
the code, it was about the "look and feel" of the interface.

Apple sued HP at one point over having a (differently shaped) trashcan
icon on the desktop!  (If you sit at your desk and think about discarding
something, a trashcan seems like one of the first things that would pop
into anyone's mind.)

-michael

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