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| Apple vs. DRI: the other look-and-feel lawsuit |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-30 17:43:01 |
| We all know about Apple's look-and-feel lawsuit against Microsoft over Windows 2.0, but this wasn't the only look-and-feel lawsuit Apple filed during those years. Digital Research, Inc., the company behind GEM, also found itself on the pointy end of Apple's needle. Unlike the lawsuit against Microsoft, though, Apple managed to 'win' the one against DRI. |
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| RE: wow, even more |
| By awholeflaffer on 2012-08-31 02:48:31 |
| patentrantnews.com |
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| RE[6]: More irony (though more loosely related) |
| By zima on 2012-08-31 03:29:36 |
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Yeah, and one of the points - mentioned by me more than once already - is how silly the usual narrative about "DOS-based" Win versions was... (but again, also historically ironic, considering 1) how it was relatively often uttered by the users of Mac OS 2) the method of that OS7 x86) Really, it's a high time to stop that "bitter, broken and have a bunch of straws you are desperately clutching at [...] take a break and chill [...] proving to be a very sore loser" of yours... |
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| From now on |
| By kwan_e on 2012-08-31 04:13:42 |
| Maybe from now on, the courts should only look at "look and feel" cases involving nakedness. |
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| Our motto is "Exploring the Future of Computing," |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-31 06:24:32 |
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I didn't know the future of computing went back 30 years in to the past. Maybe if it's relevant to today or the future, but Apple back then isn't Apple today. It's not like we still put up walls to keep the Roman legions out. Still, I enjoy a bit of history even when it's biased towards a goal of convincing an anonymous group of people that are trying to change the past. |
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| RE: Our motto is "Exploring the Future of Computing," |
| By quackalist on 2012-08-31 07:01:31 |
| Apple not being the same and yet being the same with knobs on seems more like it. |
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| RE[2]: Our motto is "Exploring the Future of Computing," |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-31 07:09:10 |
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Apple is just the same as any other company. They want money and no competition. When a company says it welcomes competition it's just a way of saying "we tried our best, but couldn't stop it". |
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| RE[2]: dear Thom |
| By PieterGen on 2012-08-31 07:58:36 |
| Thom, please do continue with your articles. Apple is screwing consumers; it's a good thing you post facts so we can check if their statements are correct. So continue! |
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| I agree |
| By TM99 on 2012-08-31 08:30:45 |
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Thom I, too, appreciate these articles and commentary. Apple deserves 'bashing' right now. Perhaps it is singing to the choir or pissing off the vocal fan boys who post here, but I can assure you many read sites like OSNews who don't post. I have been coming here since the Eugenia days not signing up to actually post until just a few days ago. Thank you. |
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| RE: dear Thom |
| By bitwelder on 2012-08-31 08:51:40 |
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> Most of the rest of us think you sound bitter, broken and have a bunch of straws you are desperately clutching at. Please keep this evaluation for yourself. Unless you have direct access to OSNews readers statistics, you have no idea what 'most of the rest of us' thinks. |
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| RE: Our motto is "Exploring the Future of Computing," |
| By r_a_trip on 2012-08-31 09:32:24 |
| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --George Santayana |
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