Some time bef
ORe 1989,
Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against
Hewlett-Packard and
Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple' s
copyright on the
look and feel of the
Macintosh user interface. In December 1989,
Xerox failed to sue
Apple Computer, claiming that the software f
OR Apple' s
Lisa computer and
Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two
Xerox programs:
Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and
Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that w
ORked even vaguely like a
Macintosh. If such {look and feel} lawsuits succeed they could put an end to {free software} that could substitute f
OR commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed,
Usenet reverberated with condemnation f
OR Apple.
GNU supp
ORters {Richard Stallman}, John Gilm
ORe, and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple' s reputation as a f
ORce f
OR progress came from having made better computers but The {League f
OR Programming Freedom} believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers w
ORse. They theref
ORe campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products
OR w
ORking f
OR Apple
OR any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g.
Lotus and
Xerox). Because of this boycott the
Free Software Foundation f
OR a long time didn' t supp
ORt
Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott. [Dates? Other events? Why did Xerox' s case against Apple fail?] (1995-04-18)
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