Max Eskin wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 yowza_at_yowza.com wrote:
> > How similar is Star Office to Microsoft Office, BTW?
>
> Nowadays, with the advent of the GUI, look and feel lawsuits are
> meaningless. Everything looks the same anyway.
They finally seem to have accepted the automotive model -- Fords
and Chevrolets have pretty well the same controls and displays in
pretty much the same places. That and the ludicrosity of Apple
suing Microsoft for borrowing concepts that Apple had borrowed
from Xerox. Of course, with Apple and Microsoft sharing a bed,
you have to wonder who is stealing the blankets.
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Received on Sun Dec 06 1998 - 09:37:47 GMT