On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:33:37PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Tothwolf wrote:
Indeed. Kubrick and Roddenberry did it first.
Flat surface, round corners
and all.
Is flat surface, rounded corners part of the intellectual property at
stake??
Yes, so watch out everybody producing bars of soap, apple's out
to get you.
That reminds me of a probably apocryphal story :
After an Apple lawsuit which protected the 'look and feel' of the
Macintosh user interface, some joker put a label on his dustbin (garbage
can) reading ' The visual appearance of this item is the interlectual
property of the Apple Computer Corporation'
Sounds like Apple vs DRI. :(
g.
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