Microsoft & Moore

[James Devine]

At 07:56 p.m. 5/20/98 -0400, Michael H. wrote:
>the time to stop Microsoft was when it copied Apple's operating
>system...Apple took Microsoft to court in what was known as the
>'look & feel' lawsuit...Apple said it looks like ours, it feels
>like ours, it is ours...Apple lost...Microsoft should have
>been forced to make their own...

I understand that Apple got _its_ OS from a Stanford/government venture
that (I believe) was called SPARC. I also heard that Apple didn't fight
hard against MS in the lawsuit because the latter threatened total
annihilation of Apple. -- Jim Devine