For that matter, Apple sued M$ over look and feel concerns for their operating system. I know that about five years ago, that case had not been settled but had been going on for over a decade.
Without starting up any talk about monopoloies... What this Adobe ruling sets the presecedent for is Amalgamated Plastic Products, developers of the first trapezoidal round edged plastic trashcan (TREP), to finally go after M$ for infringing on its copyright with the use of the 'Trash Can' featured prominently on the desktop of each Windows installation. Often, I find myself wondering when APP is going to try to enforce its copyright and patent protection, where windows clearly replicates the look and feel of their product through the use of the desktop interface. Being able to drop documents into the 'Trash Can' directly simulates the distinctive look and feel of TREP without even giving credit to the manufacturer for having developed the idea in the first place. The TREP interface, which it is non-mechanical and requires no electricity, is clearly a valuable idea possessing worth in the marketplace and, by using it without paying royalties to the patent holder, Windows is causing damages in that the TREP interface COULD BE utilized to perform similar functions to its use in Windows. One case where this is true is in the disposal of files. As computers often possess a connection to a printer either locally or via a network, users COULD BE using TREP to dispose of files manually instead of within the Windows product. These are the reasons for intellectual property laws, in that they keep other companies from profiting from the work of the original patent holders. M -----Original Message----- From: Tim Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:18 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: F*** Adobe I agree. Didn't Lotus/IBM take microsoft to court some years back because of the similarities between Lotus 1-2-3 and excel? Can't remember what came out of that. Tim P> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Haggerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: RE: F*** Adobe > HMMM.... considering the two companies have so many competitive products, > including Illustrator / Freehand, LiveMotion / Flash (for that matter > Illustrator / Flash), and GoLive / Dreamweaver, it is understandable that > Adobe would not want MM making products that look like theirs. > > In all likelyhood no one was 'hurt' by the similarities in the interfaces. I > am just not certain anyone should be able to patent an interface, it seems > like that is taking intellectual property to a new extreme. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:37 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: F*** Adobe > > > What is really strange, I don't see how MM doing this could hurt the sales > of Adobe, if anything, it made people more interested in MM. > > Hey they are being sued by big bad Adobe. Lets by their product in support. > > At 09:33 AM 5/7/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >If you can't beat them in the market place, beat them in court. > > > >larry > > > >-- > >Larry C. Lyons > >ColdFusion/Web Developer > >Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > >EBStor.com > >8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > >Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > >tel: (703) 393-7930 > >fax: (703) 393-2659 > >Web: http://www.ebstor.com > > http://www.pacel.com > >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > >-- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Michael Haggerty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:08 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: F*** Adobe > > > > > > > > > For a company that alledges to be a source for people to > > > build creative and > > > attractive projects, they are neither creative nor attractive > > > in defense of > > > their products. > > > > > > M > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 1:54 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: F*** Adobe > > > > > > > > > This is the same company that said that the downloadable version of > > > Alice in Wonderland could not be read aloud. > > > http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,22914,00.html > > > > > > .and the FBI arrest Dmitri Skylarov for DMCA violations when he came > > > to the US to present a paper. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/technology/18CRYP.html?today > > > sheadlines > > > > > > jon > > > > > > Todd wrote: > > > > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020502/20405_1.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
