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1. Comment - Apple Threatens Skinz.Org, Stardock Systems

   (Jan 19, 2000 - 12:01 AM)

   That's hard to say. In the past Look and Feel suits have been based on flimsily ground at best. The original L&F suit against Microsoft was about, what comes to, the essential parts of a GUI. Windows, Overlapping windows, Menus, the sort.
   
   Other L&F cases have been based on one application being able to act like another. Even to the point of someone being sued because there system could be customized to use the same set of hot keys.
   
   That is squabbling, and generally being a bad player about other people with the same ideas.
   
   Those are bad.
   
   This one is good.
   
   Let's put it this way. Apple isn't talking about the L&F in the way of abilities of the system. There talking about the look itself, the shape, the style. This is a tangible thing, and heavy on the intellectual property.
   
   This is the look and feel of MacOsX, this makes it distinct, they want it to remain that way, and in this fashion is a noble goal for now. The ideas and styles can be used (and I suspect will be), but the actual look of Aqua, that is for Apple alone.
   
   Jobs did a good job, he created something everyone wanted to copy instantly.
   
   The Mac, once again, is Insanely Great. :)
   
   --Fox Cutter
   (who is a PC user. :)