Yes, it is. First Microsoft threatened Sun about the Windows LAF in
swing. Then to "cover up" the first "mistake" Sun made the Mac LAF
only work on MacOS so that they would not have to put up with peoples
questions like "why can I use the Mac LAF on all systems but not the
Windows LAF?". When swing was first getting written Sun promised that
all LAFs would run on all platforms. This is one of the reasons people
basked swing instead of all the other light components sets that were
out there. Sun lied to all of us and now they want you to think it never
happened.
mo dejong
dejong at cs.umn.edu
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Robert McConnell wrote:
> Wait a minute! Didn't Microsoft argue and win the point in the Apple
> case that Look and Feel cannot be copyrighted or otherwise subject to
> proprietary limitations? Is this another case of the big bully wanting
> to have his cake and eat it too?
>
> Bob McConnell
> N2SPP
>
> At 06:55 PM 1/18/99 -0500, Martin Little wrote:
> >Because they fear Microsoft will use it as an excuse?
> >
> >They know that Microsoft will sue them for infringing on their
> >look and feel. Much the same as Apple would probably defend
> >the Mac L&F if Sun had not put the same restriction on that
> >Swing L&F.
> >
>
