Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, www.TwinForks.com ... Eastern LI's Best wrote:

> The movie seemed really accurate to me. Any misrepresentations came
> because they tried to condense 20 years into two hours -- while
> making things like GUIs easy to understand for a mainstream audience.

Parts of it didn't really come close to being accurate...especially
the part about PARC.  Go to <http://www.pbs.org/nerds/qa4.html> and
look for the 'question' by Jef Raskin...who started the Macintosh
project at Apple.

What it gets down to is: Apple didn't steal the GUI from PARC...they
were already working on it when the Macintosh team dragged Jobs to
PARC to show him the GUI.  Jef Raskin also did hit graduate paper
on a GUI referred to Quickdraw in 1969.  So, how can you steal
something that one of your employees conceived in 1969...although
I don't know if he was the first.

Greg B.

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