RE: Dickens Windowing Patent License Fee Request

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it was a marketing ploy. Great advertising for Apple and
Microsoft.

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>From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it]
>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 8:40 PM
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Dickens Windowing Patent License Fee Request
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><<Incidentally, how can you patent any code?  I thought that 
>"look and feel" was
>thrown out the window a long time ago, ala Apple .vs. Microsoft.>>
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><THAT had to be the BIGGEST crock in some time - Apple suing 
>Microsoft over the
>"window  interface" when the whole thing came from the Palo 
>Alto Research
>project...>
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>To be fair to Apple - if I remember correctly, they were clear 
>from the outset
>that they were trying to prevent MS from claiming rights to 
>the idea. They had
>always acknowledged the debt that the Lisa design owed to the 
>Xerox Star system.
>MS on the other hand ........
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