Talk:Berkeley Systems

message: "fooled the macintosh system into thinking the screen was bigger than it actually was"
Is this language unclear to anyone else?
:Yes. I'd change it but I don't understand what it means. --Optichan 14:42, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: This is verbose, wordy, legalese:
:During the early 90s Berkeley Systems filed a lawsuit against Delrina software because Delrina started selling a competing screen saver product containing Berkeley Systems' trademarked artwork (Flying Toasters).
:In the resulting court case, the judge ruled that Delrina's product not merely commented on Berkeley's, but competed with it for the same customers.. Delrina settled with Berkeley Systems, removed Berkeley Systems' trademarked images from their product and paid Berkeley Systems monetary damages. Not long after Delrina settled the lawsuit; the attorneys representing Jefferson Airplane in turn sued Berkeley Systems for copyright infringement claiming Berkeley Systems copied their (Jefferson Airplane's) trademark on the flying toaster from their 1973 album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. Berkeley Systems claimed the flying toasters came from the brain of Jack Eastman (VP of engineering). A judge later found Jefferson Airplane's lawsuit to be without merit, as the group had failed to trademark the album's cover art.
I am replacing it with the text from Flying Toasters, if that is okay with everyone:
:The toasters were the subject of two lawsuits, the first in 1993, Berkeley Systems vs Delrina Corporation, over a module of Delrina's Opus 'N Bill screensaver in which Opus the penguin shoots down the toasters. Delrina later changed the wings of the toasters to propellers in order to avoid infringing the trademark. The second case was brought in 1994 by 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane who claimed that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the cover of their 1973 album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. The case was dismissed because the cover art had not been registered as a trademark by the group prior to Berkeley Systems' release of the screensaver.
•Λmniarix• (talk) 17:25, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal trouble 

message: On 25 October 2010 user Addionne tagged the article for lack of notability.  Gimme a friggin' break!  He must have been born yesterday.  If he had bothered to read the After Dark (software) article, he would realise the significance of After Dark in the world of software and how it and Berkeley Systems influenced the design of subsequent operating systems, including Windows 95 from Microsoft.  Accordingly, I've removed the tag.  The article might be improved with references, but to consider removing it entirely for "lack of notability" is utterly ridiculous.—QuicksilverT @ 16:12, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

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