Nickolas Koehne wrote:
>
> 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
> >
Very interesting article.
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
