Yeah, those tossers! I have always looked at computers as a hobby and always will, even though I am making a pretty good living at it now. I was typing in BASIC on the C64 from magazines in junior high and the only thing that has really changed is there isn't so much typing, and magazines have turned to web sites. If only the patent laws could catch up and rein in the 'professionals'!
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> > Date: May 4, 2011 5:17:19 PM EDT > To: Jax-LUG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Hobbyist or professional > > 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] >
