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From: billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
Subject: Re: An enhanced list manager...
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.171012.2149@caen.engin.umich.edu>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 90 17:10:12 GMT

In article <7292@tank.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <TIME.90Jan18173708@oxtrap.aa.ox.com>, time@oxtrap.aa.ox.com (Tim Endres) writes...
> 
>>In article <1493@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> jherr@umbio.miami.edu (Jack Herrington) writes:
>
>[has written his own version of the list manager and is worried about Apple's]
>[reaction]
>
>>Release the code and forget what Apple thinks.
>> 
>>They have no claim over your "original" work in any way shape or form.
>>Further, if they wish to persue copyright, patent, or "look-and-feel"
>>infringement, you have to have something worth coming after. Free
>>software does not generate much revenue to sue for.
>> 
>>And people wonder why the FSF bitches about Apple.

Its ok, release it.  You aren't violating Apple's look-and-feel as long as
you use QuickDraw to generate your displays.  In this way, QuickDraw is
really producing the graphics displays, not your program.  So this means that
as long as you don't convert your code to an non-mac, you are ok.  Really,
this is basically Apple's viewpoint.   Look at who they sued... They sued
Microsoft for Windows, not Aldus for Pagemaker under Windows.

The FSF is quite a bit too uptight.  They feel that everyone has to live by
the FSF's standards.  Live and let live.

-Steve Bollinger
billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu



