On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 17:05 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Really good movie to see, the "Pirates of Silicon Valley".
Funny I mentioned that movie based on the subject/topic of the post. You will see how professionals at Xerox discounted their own creation, the mouse.... Thats how Apple and then later Microsoft got their hands on the creation. That the professional world toss aside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29#Variants Just the same, Flash technology started out as a SmartSketch application for Pen Point operating system. A project funded by At&t, who At&t later tossed. Since they saw no future in pen point operating systems. Few years later a company called Palm showed up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#History Just as HP thought what Wozniak had created had no value, HP did not want it, and lead to the rise of Apple.... Those funny professionals discounting and tossing great ideas :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
