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To: Swordmaker; Chet 99
>> Apple took the Mac idea from Xerox

> Apple BOUGHT the rights to use what they learned while at PARC

Long after the Sun has gone supernova and Earth is crisp and computers are gone and humankind is but a memory, there will be some malcontent Windows fanboy on an outer planet, picking his toes and muttering, "Yeah, well Apple stole the GUI from Xerox...".

It's the most tenacious false meme in the universe, I swear... ;-)

8 posted on 11/11/2009 9:31:14 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
And there will be some pretentious Apple fanboy -- using the idiotic word "meme" as if it actually meant something -- believing that Apple has ever actually come up with an original idea of its own.

Oh wait. They did.

Once.

It's called Objective-C.


11 posted on 11/11/2009 9:39:03 PM PST by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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