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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (19866)6/5/1998 1:43:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes   of 24154
 
>>The Dan's of the day predicted loudly and passionately that the Apple case would be the end of Microsoft and that the bad PR would irreparably damage their reputation. It didn't. <<<

This is all wrong, Alan.

First of all, the Dans (and Chazs) of the day were they same people they are today. This didn't happen in the 19th century. Second, everybody conscious in computing then knew that Apple got the windowing interface (and other goodies) from Xerox, where everyone else got it, so nobody but a few young Apple groupies and Scully thought the suit was legitimate. And this is what we were saying at the time.

But the thing most harmful to your argument is that when Xerox went to bat against Apple, Microsoft, and everybody else doing windowing GUIs for infringement, they got paid.

MSFT had to license the concepts when it came down to a big company with a legitimate complaint. Xerox wasn't some little 10-developer house they could just squash like jello. Neither is the DOJ.

Have a nice day,
Chaz
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