Didn't Intel originally own the patent rights for some of the early
chips that Apple and other companies were using?
Roman
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > >Romanator wrote:
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> > >> Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a
> > >> derivative?
> > >
> > ><snip> Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when
> > >it comes to Windog!
> >
> > 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
> >
> Actually, the company was Xerox, whom Apple stole their original GUI from.
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> Jerry
