Wirt writes (late Thursday evening):

> Today Apple filed a second of its "look and feel" infringement suits,
> although this time it's against a new Korean startup company called
> Futurepower.

Future Power, based in Santa Clara, CA, has as its parent
the Korean company Daewoo.

> One of the systems that they'll be offering later this summer
> looks very much like the iMac and is equally fully self-contained,
> with the differences being that this one is Wintel-based (with a 500 MHz
> Celeron processor), complete with a floppy, for $799.
[snip]
>     http://futurepowerusa.com/products/epower.html

The provided URL shows only the Future Power machine.
For a look at both head-to-head, try

      http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/06/27/epower.html

(Note that the above link was published before Apple's suit,
though there is a discrepancy between the date implied by the URL
and the actual text of the article; the actual date of appearance
was the morning of the 30th.)

I'm afraid I don't understand the subject line of the post,
"Good ideas don't last very long."  What's the "good idea"?
Copying Apple's distinctive design -- even as far as having 5 colours --
to confuse the general public?

--Glenn

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