Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[ChemSleuth@earthlink.net (Dennis Doms)]

In article <MPG.11e07f8c7651a84e98968c@news.mciworld.com>,
bwit@pobox.com (Bob Withers) wrote:

>In article <Pine.SGI.3.91r.990627150219.2422295B-100000@tcfreenet.org>, 
>buchner@tcfreenet.org says...
>[snip] 
>> I had heard something about Raskin working at PARC before Apple, but
>> never heard any confirmation on it.  And yes, Apple did base their
>> designs for the Mac interface on Xerox's concepts but they also pushed
>> well past what PARC was working on at the time.  There is also the
>> fact that Apple gave Xerox $1 million dollars of stock to be able to
>> do that visit which Xerox later sold (I believe) for $17+ million.
>> Apple paid to look around PARC with the implication that they could
>> use what they found at PARC.
>
>Raskin had friends who worked at PARC and had seen demos of the things 
>they were working on before the offical Apple visit.  I don't believe he 
>ever worked there himself.
>
>Bob
>
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I'd accept that at this point. Malone refers to him being at SAIL and
apparently spending time while there also visiting Xerox, but I can't
find a reference to him actually working at Xerox. (I thought I had
heard years ago that he did, but I'll assume I misremembered unless I
find something concrete.)

That doesn't change the core argument: some knowledge of the Xerox GUI
work was apparently known to Raskin before the Mac project.

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