> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Y'all are arguing about who did the best job of stealing ideas from > Xerox. > > > > It's worth reading the Steve Jobs bio just to get the straight goods > > on that somewhat apocryphal story. Xerox were being really stupid > with > > that technology and basically sold it to Apple for pennies on the > > dollar. > > Yup. SJ weaseled it out of Xerox legitimately, Microsoft stole the > ideas from Apple.
It's the hundredth anniversary of Turing's birth today. Everybody stole everything from him. Ironically he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple after being prosecuted and persecuted for being gay and forced to take drugs which made him grow breasts. I wonder if Jobs had that in mind when he chose the symbol of a rainbow-striped apple with a bite taken out. Google has a nice doodle today marking the centenary. Thanks to them for helping to fund Bletchley Park. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
