scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) (07/25/89)
Quoted without permission from PC Week, July 24, 1989, pg 4, col 1. No visible copyright on title page, colophon, table of contents, or article: "Apple Loses Ground In Infringement Suit" Judge William Schwarzer dealt another blow to Apple Computer Inc. late last week when he circulated a preliminary ruling that MicroSoft Corp. and its it Windows licensee, Hewlett-Packard Co., have full rights to use in Windows 2.03 most of the features present in Windows release 1.0. Microsoft wearned that right on the basis of a 1985 agreement it negotiated with Apple, Schwarzer said. Of the original 189 features that Apple officials claim were infringed upon in Windows 2.03, on 10 now remain in dispute. This is the complete article. Editorial remark from me: this refers only to the licencing issues disputed between Apple and Microsoft/HP, not to Apples overall claim to have near-complete rights to certain types of graphical interface. Nonetheless, it's pleasant to seem them continue to lose ground in this fight. -- Steve Simmons scs@vax3.iti.org Industrial Technology Institute Ann Arbor, MI. "Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai