It is unfortunate that it is regarded as stealing & then businesses sue each other (ditto patents). Xerox had some great products but not the marketing will. I worked on their desktop boxes (Xerox 8085) networked with thicknet in the 80s way ahead of everyone else...
WIMP interface:Microsoft took it from Apple who took it from Xerox who took it from Smalltalk the SmallTalk info is new to me, any references ? It is this kind of attempt at restriction that makes Open Source products and licenses so important. It also is important to ensure net neutrality & to keep big business from taking over control of these things. They should have input but not to the exclusion of others ex. what happened with radio, television ... I think Intellectual Property is an oxymoron no idea comes from a vacuum it comes from experience and somewhere back there the work of others (your grade 1 teacher...). Remember the copyright feedback deadline in Canada is Sept 13th as previously stated on this list, put in your 2cents. Thanks for the opportunity to rant! Tricia On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:59:54PM -0400, Jean-Francois Theroux wrote: >> Apple stole the graphical environment and mouse from them I believe when >> they visited PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). The execs of the time over at >> Xerox missed a really good opportunity back then. They didn't think >> computers would become what they are today. They lacked vision. > > I remember seeing one of Xerox's ALTO systems -- the model they built > and used within PARC. But when Xerox started selling anything > resembling personal computers based on this line of development, all > they came up with was a word-processor. Yes, a somputer that couls only > process words. > > I was disappointed. And when Apple came out with the Macintosh, not > only had they copied the UI, they copied the closed-system policy. Only > apps approved by Apple, only developers appreoved by Apple, etc. It > took years before anyone could program a MAcintosh without Apples > express sayso. > > Eventually, Apple would start suing other companies for copying Apple's > window-and-mouse interface. I'm told thos stopped only because PARC > started to sue Apple, basically ordering them to stop suing people over > intellectual property that wasn't theirs. > > - hendrik > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
