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by anders pearson
Fri 11 Aug 2000 08:16:58
lawyers obviously have <a href="http://www.protein.co.uk/article.asp?ch=tech&id=1719">too much time on their hands</a>. Cobalt is suing apple for copying the design of the Qube. this is really getting ridiculous. <ol><li>one of the simplest geometric shapes is copyrightable? you've got to be kidding me. i suppose i should mention that i currently have designs for pyramid and spherical computers; so if anyone makes computers with that shape in the future, i want a lot of money from them.</li><li>does anyone remember the NeXT cube? i seem to recall cube shaped computers being around in... the 80's. i don't recall hearing about any lawsuits brought against cobalt for copying their design. and wasn't Wozniak (or maybe it was Jobbs, i can never keep them straight) in charge of NeXT at the time anyway? </li></ol>
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Matthias Dittgen - Fri 11 Aug 2000 08:17:58
a red hat, a chameleon, a window, an apple, a pinguin, a ...
anthony - Fri 11 Aug 2000 08:18:58
Steve Jobs was head of NeXT - and he's back at Apple because Apple bought NeXT a couple of years ago. SO Apple has pretty good cause to say the cube is theirs, especially as Mac OSX is a reworked version of NeXT/Step