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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[2]: Our motto is "Exploring the Future of Computing," |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-31 09:33:43 |
| If that means we'll one day again be able to buy 5.25" floppies I'm all for it! |
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| Comment by UltraZelda64 |
| By UltraZelda64 on 2012-08-31 09:55:42 |
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> "Apple's fears became reality - the Amiga withered away into irrelevance and the IBM PC took over the industry - and it nearly killed Apple." I really wish it would have. They seem more and more like a crooked, anti-competitive, patent trolling company every single time they make the news these days. They're pussies that are terrified of competition and will use downright pathetic and anti-competitive methods to kill their competition. Sorry Apple fans, I refuse to kiss their ass. This is the kind of company that should be busted for being *against* everything the U.S. economy is about. They are a business, and they are AGAINST even the idea of competition from any other business. > "You know what the irony is of all this? One of the main developers behind GEM was Lee Jay Lorenzen, and get this: before joining DRI, he worked at Xerox PARC on the very same user interfaces upon which the Macintosh was built. In other words, Apple took what was partially his work, implemented it for the Macintosh, and then sued over Lorenzen's own post-Xerox interface!" That sounds like Apple alright... apparently they haven't changed over the years, they just got worse. Ironically, even according to the dead god that Apple fans worship, back when he was alive he said that his company "steals" because that's "what great artists do." Wow... WTF has happened to that company... sounds like the fame and money rotted their brains and they just don't give a shit about anyone else but themselves now. Because, you know, only Apple is capable of innovating. No one else even knows what the word means if you ask them. Edited 2012-08-31 10:06 UTC |
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| RE[2]: dear Thom |
| By brichpmr on 2012-08-31 10:01:20 |
| Thom, please reveal for us how many PARC engineers ended up going to work at Apple following the famous visits by Apple to Xerox PARC. I seem to recall that there definitely was cross-pollination at the time. |
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| RE: I agree |
| By brichpmr on 2012-08-31 10:03:43 |
| Apple, IMHO, deserves more praise than bashing right now...ymmv. |
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| RE: Is it just me... |
| By aldo on 2012-08-31 10:53:39 |
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> It feels like most of the articles written by the author have a certain negative/ironic/sarcastic/j udgemental character towards a particular company. We're always hearing 'one side of the story'. Yeah. Will no-one on the internets speak up for poor old benighted Apple..? |
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| RE: Is it just me... |
| By l3v1 on 2012-08-31 12:52:47 |
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> most of it looks like trolling It might, not making it any less true. |
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| connections |
| By l3v1 on 2012-08-31 13:10:44 |
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I will not bash Thom, as some above, in fact I'd like to point out why I mostly like his stuff. From the text I went to see about GEM/2, then I found out from that page that desqview was made by quarterdeck, whom I remember from qemm-times, then checking into that I found out they also made Mosaic. So overall I came out knowing more than before. Thom +1 |
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| RE[2]: I agree |
| By l3v1 on 2012-08-31 13:12:16 |
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> Apple, IMHO, deserves more praise than bashing right now...ymmv. YMMV... oh, yeah, it does, how much you can't even imagine :D :P |
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| RE[2]: dear Thom |
| By capi_x on 2012-08-31 13:32:40 |
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Apple is a company, and the only interest is the money. Some decisions are good for all of us (webkit, bsd improvements...) and other decisions not benefit us as consumers. :-\ But instead of deleting comments, maybe you can learn something interesting from other companies: http://www.google.com/publicpoli... <joke> Unless you receive money from Google aka "Don't be evil". ;-) </joke> I'm not a lawyer and don't care me the patent war from companies. I like C, ASM, OS programming, PICs, DIY, computers... and lately OSNews only is focused in not technical news (and always from one side) This is my opinion and I say this from the affection I have to the OSNews site. Sorry if this is a criticism comment. But i think is better say this. |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-31 14:17:20 |
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"At this point Apple Computer sued DRI in what would turn into a long dispute over the "look and feel" of the GEM/1 system, which was an almost direct copy of the Macintosh (with some elements bearing a closer resemblance to those in the earlier Lisa, available since January 1983)." From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gra... Emphasis added. This seems like a more logical reason than what Thom claims as fact: "Apple wasn't happy with having to deal with competition, so the company started to sue everyone it thought it could get away with." This would also explain why they didn't sue Commodore over AmigaOS. I don't buy Thom's explanation that Steve Jobs knew Commodore would go bust anyway a decade later. Science has never been able to prove that people have paranormal powers. |
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