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...company best known for its engineering computers, got into the chip business last summer when it began licensing a RISC processor to AT&T, Unisys and Xerox. MIPS, which introduced its second generation of the chips last month, supplies microprocessors to Tandem, Prime, and Silicon Graphics. Hewlett-Packard has built an entire line of computers around RISC technology...
...began with an eleven-page complaint over the alleged violation of an arcane bit of copyright law. But by last week it was clear to the computer industry that the federal lawsuit filed by Apple Computer against Microsoft, a leading U.S. software firm, and Hewlett-Packard, a major electronics company, could be just the opening salvo in a monumental legal battle. The dispute pits two of the best-known figures in the industry against each other: John Sculley, 49, president of Apple; and Bill Gates, 32, chairman of Microsoft. It also seems calculated to derail the plans...
Apple's success with the Mac inspired a host of imitators who incorporated elements of the computer's visual display into their own systems. At the heart of the current dispute is Apple's charge that Microsoft, with a program called Windows 2.03, and Hewlett-Packard, with NewWave, took imitation beyond the point of flattery to copyright infringement. "The computer industry was created through the innovation of individuals," said Apple Chief Operating Officer Delbert Yocam. "It is critically important to the entire industry that innovation be protected from illegal copiers with the full force...
...Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft all express confidence that they are not in violation of Apple's copyrights. Microsoft's Gates is especially puzzled: in 1985 he and Sculley signed a confidential agreement, made public last week, that gave Microsoft a "nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, nontransferable license" to use parts of the Macintosh display in an earlier version of Windows. Apple argues that the latest version of Windows is too Mac-like and thus violates the agreement. But when Gates spoke to Sculley two days before the suit was filed, the Apple chairman made no mention of the problem...
Nine Hewlett-Packard computers, used by students for computation structures, were damaged when the trespassers poured soda in the machines' vents...