Re: Dickens Windowing Patent License Fee Request

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gottcha Lou !

With what Jon mentioned and now what you mention I DEFINITELY remember that "OK
for 1.0" and MS "assuming it was for everything. Gee, amazing that that 
arrogance
started WAY back then :-)

Chuck

"System Support Products, Inc." wrote:

> At 1:17 PM +0000 12/2/99, Chuck Lewis wrote:
>
> >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...
>
> Chuck,
>
>     Apple paid Xerox for the use of that particular innovation, so
> they had the rights to it.  Also, many of the user interface
> refinements that are taken for granted now were added by Apple.  This
> includes "click and drag" as opposed to the Xerox "click-move-click"
> modal interface.  See <http://www.starway.org/~arnaud/Raskin.html>
>
>     In turn, Apple granted a license to Microsoft to use the interface
> in Windows, mainly in return for Microsoft developing Word for the
> Mac.  The dispute arose because Apple claimed that their agreement
> allowed Microsoft to use the interface only in Windows 1.0, and not
> later releases.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     - Lou Forlini
>       Software Engineer
>       System Support Products, Inc.
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