To: Leo Farnsworth
Both Microsoft an Apple stole the look and feel from Sun MicrosystemsActually the concept of a "window" goes back to the Xerox PARC labs. I believe the "mouse" came from there, too.
9 posted on
11/13/2009 6:46:22 AM PST by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality.)
To: paulycy
“They spent years and millions on court fights and the courts said that it was OK for Bill Gates to copy Steve Jobs homework.”
“Actually the concept of a “window” goes back to the Xerox PARC labs. I believe the “mouse” came from there, too.”
So it’s really NOT Job’s homework, eh?
11 posted on
11/13/2009 6:48:52 AM PST by
Leo Farnsworth
(I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
To: paulycy; Leo Farnsworth
Actually the concept of a "window" goes back to the Xerox PARC labs. I believe the "mouse" came from there, too. Windowing came from PARC, but the mouse was before that. In any case, Apple paid for the PARC visit. You can't steal what you paid for.
To: paulycy
Actually the concept of a "window" goes back to the Xerox PARC labs. I believe the "mouse" came from there, too. No, the Mouse was earlier than PARC... it was invented at Stanford by Douglas Englebart.
39 posted on
11/14/2009 10:32:02 AM PST by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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