The folks on this list may also have an interest in this. -- Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) RLU # 182668 This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the Xerox Alto, how Steve Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole it... http://www.applemuseum.seastar.net/sections/gui.html There's everything you want to know about how the GUI was born. Including it's conception in 1945. -Darkeyes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online > > Adrian Smith wrote: > > > > actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. > > > > >Romanator wrote: > > > > > >> Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a > > >> derivative? > > > > A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read > > too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying > > the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. > > > > Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for > > the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper > > documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. > > already long before Apple got the idea. > > > > (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that > > is how I remember it.) > > > > Paul > > > > Adrian Smith > > 'de telepone dude > > Telecom Dept. > > x 7042 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If they're not suing each other, the are either merging or buying off > small bits of their > offshoot companies. Hmhh... Makes you think. (he-he) > -- > Roman > Registered Linux User #179293 >
