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actually, Apple asked for, and received, permission to use the Xerox PARC interface. It also received about $1 million in funding from Xerox along with a reason
by cubicle67 17y ago
actually, Apple asked for, and received, permission to use the Xerox PARC interface. It also received about $1 million in funding from Xerox along with a reasonable number of engineers, glad to see someone finally understanding what they were doing
- fhars 17y agoAnd then they went sueing other people over it. And it seems that Xerox didn't actually think they gave Apple this permission, as they in turn sued Apple over it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
- GHFigs 17y agoAnd then they went sueing other people over it. Not arbitrarily. The prior licensing arrangement between Apple and Microsoft is central to that case. And it seems that Xerox didn't actually think they gave Apple this permission Xerox sued Apple, yes--but as even the Wikipedia article points out, it had much more to do with benefiting from the precedent that the case might have established than with anything they thought before. It's more evident--by the fact that they waited so long--that they didn't think they could deny permission (i.e. that 'look and feel' was subject to copyright, as Apple believed)--which ultimately is what the court effectively decided.