The Apple vs. Microsoft GUI Lawsuit
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| Microsoft was deeply involved in the development of the Macintosh.
| Microsoft had been the first outside developer to get a Macintosh
| prototype. The prototype was promptly nicknamed SAND (Steve's
| Amazing New Device) by Bill Gates and Charles Simonyi.
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| [...]
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| Without warning, Apple filed suit against Microsoft in federal court on
| March 17, 1988 for violating Apple's copyrights on the "visual displays"
| of the Macintosh. (Apple also filed suit against HP for its NewWave
| environment that ran on top of Windows 2.0.)
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| Apple's suit included 189 contested visual displays that Apple
| believed violated its copyright.
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| Microsoft countersued, but it failed to stem the bad publicity.
| Windows' development community was terrified that any court ordered
| changes to the software would render their products incompatiblea
| nd make Windows undesirable to consumers. Borland's CEO said itw
| as like "waking up and finding out that your partner might have
| AIDS."
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http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/0825.html
Software Patents Are Evil
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| I am all in favor of companies receiving revenue for source that
| implements an idea, but why shouldn't their competitor be allowed to
| provide consumers with a different implementation of the same idea as
| long as the source was derived independently?
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/windows/alex/archives/software-patents-are-evil-12976
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