Apple is protecting their rights (Score 1)

As clearly stated by Wardell, who was interviewed in the article in question. "Apple has the right to protect their intellectual property". You can't patent art, but there are laws to prevent people from exploiting your work. In this case Apple has used alott of resources to create a well designed GUI for their new OS, so i understand it when they don't want other operating systems to look like OS X right before the release.