No kidding. Xerox has come up with some of the most advanced ideas in our
century. They also developed the ethernet, in part with DEC and Intel (Or
IBM, but I believe it was Intel)
-Darkeyes
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From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
> Paul wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> >
> > >Yes, apple sued microsoft in the early 80's for
> > >stealing the GUI from them but microsoft argued
> > >successfully that GUI is the future of computing and
> > >as such copyrighting it is akin to trying to copyright
> > >"book" or "magazine". This ruling is atleast
> > >partially responsible for Linux being able to be
> > >distributed with macOS and winOS style GUI's without
> > >fear of legal reprisals.
> > >
> > >Cool huh?
> >
> > Yes, really cool. It is a funny thing to realize that with GUI's, Xerox
> > for the first time came up with something "original" *grin*
> >
> > Paul
> >
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> I wonder what happened with Xerox? So many original ideas. They must be
> concentrating more on business solutions.
> --
> Roman
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