denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste) (08/05/89)
The latest Business Week had two tidbits about Apple:
1. The judge in Apple vs. Microsoft and HP threw out all but 10 of the
133 points of similarity that Apple claimed between the Mac and the other
products. The tidbit speculated that the remaining 10 would be settled out of
court.
2. Adobe, the folks who came up with "PostScript", was part owned by Apple, and
did much of its business with Apple. Apple just sold its stake in Adobe, and is
going to engineer its own product to emulate the one it was buying from Adobe.
(I was a little confused about just what the product was. It didn't sound like
printer software. Maybe it was a program to do screen-dumps to post-script
printers?) The implication was strong that customers wouldn't be able to tell
the products apart.
Hey, Adobe: Can your lawyers say "look and feel"?
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