From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:40:17 -0600
> Well, judging by the amount of money that Apple and Steve Jobbs lost by
not
> having patents on "their ideas", such as the GUI, etc. I'm not surprised
> they are *finally* trying to secure their piece of the pie. Had they
started
> trying to patent everything they displayed before, history would not have
> been as kind to Billy Gates as it did.
>
But isn't it true that Apple got all those things from XeroxParc in pretty
much exactly the same way?
Remember that at the time of the development of the GUI, Xerox didn't think this technology was a tool feasible to be marketed.
It was very much like the case of when Decca Records turned down the Beatles. They declared their style was "on the way out". They probably regretted it ever since. :)
JJ
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