[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [since I received only 35 Newbie on the 25th, none on the 26th & 27th I'm
> reposting this. I had thought that the Newbie server might be down, but
> since I have only a few (rather than scads) messages from Newbie today I'm
> assuming that I just didn't get my mail for some reason.]
>
> I've heard many times over the years that Apple got the graphical
> interface idea from the Xerox PaloAltoResearchCenter people. A couple of
> years ago I saw (?The Pirates of Silicon Valley? -- don't recall) which
> portrayed the people at PARC adamently against showing this idea to Steve
> Jobs (of Apple). They were ordered by Xerox's Corporate Offices to show him
> their graphical developments. He took the idea and developed the LISA and
> the Macintosh. Bill Gates (of Microsoft, the young contender at this point
> in time) saw (the LISA?) at Apple, if I recall correctly, and began
> development of Windows. Copyright rulings were that the expression of an
> idea was what was copyrightable in these issues, and Apple lost the suit over
> Microsoft stealing the idea of the graphical environment, which they had
> stolen from Xerox PARC in the first place.
> PARC spawned several seminal ideas over the years. One is ETHERNET, the
> foundation ideas of interconnecting computers and how to do it, the
> protocols, etc. As I recall Xerox wouldn't support further development so
> these people (sorry I forgot the names) took ETHERNET with them when they
> left PARC, and continued to develop the protocols.
> Xerox blew things several times due to large (read industry dominant)
> company "corporate mentality". Xerox had no idea what to do with these
> ideas, but they made fortunes for other people and changed the face of
> computing.
> -Gary-
>
> In a message dated 7/23/2000 4:43:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> <<
> 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
> >>
One of Bill Gates business competitors quoted him, " Hey, don't tell me
anything that you may be working on, otherwise, I will use it?
Xerox
I would chalk this up to poor upper management and decision making.
Don't you love this:
"See 'ya in court" attitude. I know, when you're dealing with ideas,
patents etc. you have to take it to court. It just sounds funny: company
C sues company B for something company A originally came up with.
Hey, Kodak recently came back fairly strong with some great digital
cameras. A little expensive.
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
