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>>I wondered at the time why CBM was not >>threatened and thought that perhaps
this was because Amiga never had a >>business relationship with Xerox labs the
way Apple had during LISA's >>development.
I don't think that Apple ever had a business relationship with Xerox on the GUI
stuff. Xerox did sue Apple about the same time Apple sued Microsoft over
Windows, many years after the Mac had been released.
I've been saying that CBM was never sued was because Amiga sales were never
enough to sue over. In fact, I think a lawsuit against CBM by Apple would have
been a winning situation for CBM, and Apple knew this. It would have provided a
great deal of publicity and lent credibility to the Amiga. "The Amiga? Oh
yeah, that's the machine Apple's all shook up about." Much better to ignore it,
and let Commodore dig its grave.