Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

[Paul Sherr]

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>--- Nickolas Koehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the
>> Xerox Alto, how Steve
>> Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole
>> it...
A lot of the Apple rights were due to the fact that Xerox neither 
patented nor copyrighted mice, windows, etc. In fact, they were not 
sure that either law applied. Then Apple hired away a number of the 
people who developed their system. Apple argued, and the Court 
agreed, that much of the ideas in both operating systems were the 
intellectual property of those people.

The Xerox system was both pretty fantastic and impractical. It was 
written in Smalltalk. The system allowed for wonderful degrees of 
information sharing and cooperative tool building, but it was 
extremely resource intensive. Nicolas Werth did a similar system 
called Lillith.

Paul

-- Paul Sherr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/29/2000