From: "Bob W"
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.
I saw at least one argument that the coroner's inquest in Turing's case
wouldn't stand up by modern standards. They didn't even test the apple
to see if it did have cyanide in it.
The alternative theory put forth was that Turing was experimenting with
electroplating & careless handling his chemicals leading him to
accidental death.
... or possibly the British government did him in.
And Godfrey, there's plenty of evidence that Bill Gates stole the ideas
that became Windoze directly from Xerox.
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