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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Howe who wrote (67223)	4/12/2002 5:42:35 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Are you sure you're not Andy Richter? That sounds just like the conversation he had with his boss on his (last week's?) show. Edit: I think the next line was, "I wish I had handled that better." Charles Tutt (SM)

To: David Howe who wrote (67223)	4/12/2002 8:40:30 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

DH: Actually AAPL was the first thief. They then sued MSFT claiming they had the lock on the GUI. MSFT prevailed and the courts washed the hands of MSFT developing a GUI for Windows. The big question is why hasn't anyone been smart enough to out-maneuver MSFT as AAPL did to Xerox. JFD

To: David Howe who wrote (67223)	4/13/2002 12:32:55 AM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

So I guess you are a freak with his head up his yahoo. How about showing us something solid to back this up. Sure, they saw value in the GUI that Xerox didn't, but that's not "stole" as you put it. It's a business deal. You are the biggest freaking liar freak I've ever stumbled upon on any message board. what is sad about you is you probably don't even know how to do research, let alone know how i could find this....... i hope you keep your day job, because your investing skills are about as sharp as a barrel of marbles..... here is when MSFT admitted in court that they got the GUI from apple not Xerox... PROVING AGAIN that you know not what you are talking about or are lying again.... probably both in your case..... for the umpteenth time.... .. apple lost the court battle because apple wrote some really bad licensing agreements, which allowed MSFT to steal apple tech out from under their noses, nothing wrong with luck on MSFT's part...... but you butchering history like you do, is very ignorant.... richmond.edu 1. The Contract Claim {15} The Court of Appeals first held that the license agreement covered Microsoft's right to use display elements and was not, as Apple argued, a license for only the version 1.0 interface.[52] In the agreement, Microsoft acknowledged that the "visual displays" used in Windows 1.0 were "derivative works of the visual displays generated by Apple's Lisa and Macintosh graphic user interfaceprograms."[53] The agreement licensed the use of "these derivative works"[54] to Microsoft. As such, the agreement was written to license the visual displays as derivative works for use in the interface and not to license the interface itself.[55]