folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (05/04/89)
I just read in ComputerWeek (not my own copy--I don't subscribe to such a pinstripe-business publication myself) that Andy Hertzfeld (sorry about the spelling, but I don't have the name right here) is filing a friend of the court brief *in favor* of Microsoft and Hewlett Packard in the Apple look-and-feel case. He said that he couldn't have done the Mac if companies were as look-and-feel-happy then as they are now. This strikes me as good and bad. Certainly Apple (Andy) borrowed a few PARC ideas, some of which were borrowed by PARC, but they made *big* improvements and actually brought something to the market (something Xerox still hasn't successfully done with most of its PARC ideas): this borrowing seems to be good. But Microsoft's Windows is a second-rate knock-off of the Mac (please don't flame me too much, I own MS Word :-)): this "borrowing" is bad. Wayne Folta (folta@tove.umd.edu 128.8.128.42)