Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia
From: Rosyna <rosyna@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:41:11 -0700
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Apple was the FIRST to use an overlapping windowing system and I 
believe they patented the idea, They threatened to take MS to court 
but they settled that Win 3.0 (ONLY this version, no others) could be 
released (hence Excel 1.0 for Macintosh) But then Win 3.1 came out 
and Apple tried to sue but the cursed courts threw it out because the 
agreement Apple had with MS didn't specify exactly that MS couldn't 
use it in later OSes

At approximately 12:06 PM -0800GMT on the day Earth People call 
12/30/98, David Knaack declared:

> Copyright infringment is a different matter, unless Apple
> found a way to patent the usage of a GUI, Microsoft (and
> everybody else who makes GUI's) is at no fault for using
> the same idea.  I won't elucidate any further points in
> this argument here, since it seems unlikely that anyone
> will seriously take an opposing position.

---
You're just jealous cause the voices talk to ME

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Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia

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