On Jun 22, 2012, at 18:42 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 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 was a few years before MS caught on and started programing for the mouse. Almost all the Apple "innovations" after the success of the Mac were as a result of buying the small companies that came with them. Eventually, MS caught on to that too. And now, they are introducing the "first hardware that MS has ever offered for Windows." Other than a bunch of mice and keyboards. If it doesn’t excite you, This thing that you see, Why in the world, Would it excite me? —Jay Maisel Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com -- 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.
