[Am-info] Gates: Antitrust trial "a waste of resources"

[Paul Rickard]

====== On 06.13.2000 5:58 PM, Mitch Stone typed: =======

>>    And that look-and-feel victory has since then come about to bite 
>>Microsoft's ass, since it removed any grounds for them to sue the Linux 
>>vendors that include a Windows-looking interface with their own systems.
>
>Possibly. Apple's case was complicated by them having licensed some 
>elements of the Mac interface to Microsoft in 1985 (under duress). 
>Knowledgeable parties suggest that Apple would have won otherwise.

    What would Windows possibly look like if Apple had won? Something 
like Microsoft BoB, or perhaps little more than the old DOS shell 
programs? If Microsoft had to come up with its own interface, Windows 
would have been a failure.



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