CompuServe Messages

Most people in business don't know from an Amiga or an ST nor, at this stage of the game does Apple care about Commodore or Atari. Apple is trying to protect itself from loss of business due to people using the IBM presentation manager based on Microsoft Windows under OS2. Certainly, if the court were to find that Apple has a case Commodore and Atari could be forced to license their screen displays from Apple. The thing that's so ridiculous about it all (if you've followed the history of windowed presentation and mouse use) is that all of this technology began at XEROX Palo Alto Research Center and that's where Steve Jobs took the idea for the Mac from. Unless Xerox placed all this stuff in the public domain their the one's who really created the technology and should probably own the rights to it. People have said this before, but, to the best of my knowledge, Xerox has never spoken to the issue.