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#A2200

    24-Nov-94 09:47:14
Sb: #173912-#A2200
Fm: John Bittner 72245,1110
To: henry teller 73244,2610
>>But I believe Amiga licensed the WorkBench from Xerox when the >>original software developement began. That's news to me, Henry. Can anyone else confirm this? In fact, I don't believe Apple had a Xerox license. Regardless, one of the things that Apple sued it's *licensee*, Microsoft, over was overlapping windows. Apple sucessfully sued DR over the GEM interface on this very point. They just as easily could have sued Commodore had they regarded the Amiga as a threat to their market. Whether someone has a legitmate right to a technology is often irrelevant in corporate legal wars.