Re: Dickens Windowing Patent License Fee Request

Now that you mention that, I have a VAGUE recollection of that !

Thanks !

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

> <<Incidentally, how can you patent any code?  I thought that "look and feel" 
>was
> thrown out the window a long time ago, ala Apple .vs. Microsoft.>>
>
> <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...>
>
> To be fair to Apple - if I remember correctly, they were clear from the outset
> that they were trying to prevent MS from claiming rights to the idea. They had
> always acknowledged the debt that the Lisa design owed to the Xerox Star 
>system.
> MS on the other hand ........
>
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