Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["wildstar128" <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"Ruud Dingemans" <rtech@home.nl> wrote in message
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> No. Apple was not.
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> Apple was explicitly *invited* by Xerox (because it wanted those booming
> Apple shares) to come and visit PARC.
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> And they *knew* Jobs was interested in doing something with their GUI
> idead because he basically told them so (they didn't really want to
> market it itself - developing the cheap pc hardware for it would've been
> a major undertaking, since Xerox wasn't a computer maker). Also, several
> Xerox engineers went over to Apple to develop their ideas further.
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> To quote Steve Wozniak:
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Thanks, as I said in words essentially. Yet Apple was nicer to Xerox then
Billy. Yet, all in all - Xerox was all in all happy to see the ideas come
out into use. The dreams of the designers are all in a way happy that the
GUI ideas actually mounted into being used. Dreams come true. As in the
dream of having GUI in use by computer users.

Despite, Billy's method - M$ has had a fundamental role that put GUI into
desktop PCs among other legendary systems such as Apple Lisa/Mac,
Commodore's Amiga series, Atari's ST series, Berkeley Softworks GEOS and
other names. We may hate M$ but they had their role even when M$ wants to
take all the credit.