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I'm replying to your reply, because the original was deleted due to Mr. Traveler having violated the Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints list from the ("These publishers have asked us not to allow any material at all to be posted to FR") category, by posting an article from Vanity Fair (the post evaporated as I was composing my comment!) One part of that puff-piece claimed (in gushing, florid language) that the ability to do video manipulation was something given to the media industry by the Mac.

Wrong. Think "Video Toaster" and "Commodore Amiga", both of which were deployed to post-production shops while the Mac was still in diapers.

It then went on to assert that the personal computer obtained its identity from Jobs, making a passing reference to him having channeled something from Xerox PARC.

LOL!

"Channeled" must be smarmspeek for "lifted".

Xerox tolerated the offense, until Apple, having collected fees from Microsoft for GUI "permission", turned around and sued Microsoft for having the temerity to use what they'd paid to use.

At that point, Xerox was no longer amused, and proceeded to sue Apple for lifting the Xerox STAR interface, claim it as their own, and then sell it to Microsoft.

As I recall, in each of those actions, the "other parties" prevailed.

But, that kind of gall -- to sell what they'd taken from someone else ("It's ours, we stole it fair and square!") -- is not surprising, coming as it did from a company founded on grubstake financing obtained via the manufacture and sale of illegal telephone "blueboxes".