Re: [issues] MS/DOJ ruling

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Caitlyn Martin wrote:

> No, they bought an operating system, then designed a GUI for it based on
> what was already being done by other GUIs (as in MacOS,

Actually, they paid Apple for source code and the right to create a
derivative work. In fact, Windows is a derivative work of the MacOS.

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