Some time before 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 for Apple' s
Lisa com
PUter 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 worked even vaguely like a
Macintosh. If such {look and feel} lawsuits succeed they could
PUt an end to {free software} that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed,
Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple.
GNU supporters {Richard Stallman}, John Gilmore, and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple' s re
PUtation as a force for progress came from having made better com
PUters but The {League for Programming Freedom} believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple com
PUters worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g.
Lotus and
Xerox). Because of this boycott the
Free Software Foundation for a long time didn' t support
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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