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From: J. Clarke
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:04

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:07:37 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>Due to a patent claim by Apple, GEM Desktop ceased to be available for 
>the PC, even though it continued to be available on the Atari ST.

Not quite.  It was due to lack of sales.  DR made changes to work
around the lawsuit, just as Microsoft did with Windows.

Atari's GEM was mostly an independent fully licensed development.

Note that GEM is open source (google FreeGEM), but hasn't been
actively developed for about 10 years.

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