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To: paulycy
"Windows stole the look and feel of the Mac in the first place."

Apple stole everything from Xerox.

19 posted on 11/13/2009 7:06:07 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Apple stole everything from Xerox.

No, they did not. Apple had been working on a GUI for two years before the visit to Xerox's PARC for which they paid about $7 million in common stock for the rights to use what they learned. No theft occurred. The Apple interface was significantly different from the Star interface and included the top menu bar, submenus to menus, drag and drop, the trashcan metaphor for deleting files, and draggable windows which did not exist in the Star interface.

41 posted on 11/14/2009 10:42:25 AM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Paladin2
"Apple stole everything from Xerox."

A pervasive lie. Xerox made out like bandits on the stock received in return. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29
44 posted on 11/14/2009 10:59:57 AM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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