Dan Hollis wrote:

> You can't copyright a GUI! Apple learned this the hard way. They *L O S T* 
> in court, and set some nice precedent law.

Let me expand a little on this...

When windows 3.0 was released, microsoft was sued by apple because the 
windows user-interface was a clone of apple's user-interface.

The courts decided, however, that "you can't copyright a 
user-interface", and that microsoft was free to distribute windows 
without paying any loyalties to apple.

Thus, there is a legal precedent saying that it's ok for programs to 
copy the UI's of other programs.  Unless Reborn actually 
photoshopped/gimped the rebirth pixmaps, PropellerHeads can't do or say 
anything.

Not to mention the fact that there have been soft-synth UI's modeled 
after 303's and 909's since *LONG* before propellerheads did anything.

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