SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (04/04/88)
CS656%OUACCVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: >HP and Apple could do is agree to a lawsuit like this. Microsoft and HP >could deliberately lose, giving Apple legal prcedent in it's claims. In a >spirit of forgiveness Apple could then give them both very cheap liscences >to use this 'look and feel' but then decide not to liscence it to the makers >of the new Clones that are coming. MICROSOFT and HP could then cry all the >way to the bank about their 'loss'. This solution WOULD make Microsoft cry as they are the ones planning to sell operating systems to all those clone makers. Hardly a week after IBM announced plans for the Presentation Manager, Bill Gates was quoted as saying there would be "clones" for non-IBM systems which adopt OS/2 (from Microsoft). Thus far, everyone presumes that the Presentation Manager clone for Zenith, Leading Edge, etc. will be OS/2 Windows (probably Apple has made the same assumption and, logically, that surmise is one reason for the suit). Nice try though. I wonder if this group might be able to invent (at least anticipate) a feasible out-of-court settlement of the case? --------------------- Disclaimer: I like my opinions better than my employer's anyway... (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut