In article <b0k1a3$qeg$1@acme.gcfn.org>,
dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr) wrote:
wildstar128 (wildstar128@hotmail.com) wrote:
: "Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com> wrote in message
: news:Tq1X9.3211$PR2.1556@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
: > Is that sort of like Windows is "inspired by" the Mac desktop?
: >
: > Best regards,
: In a way, perhaps. If we follow the history a bit. Both Mac and Windows were
: both inspired by Xerox PARC 's BRAVO, and Minicomputer Systems. So in many
: ways there are possibilities that Microsoft doesn't need to be directly
: taking from Apple. But from Xerox. That Apple was doing the same. Billy and
: the Apple boys, both went to Xerox siminars on the Xerox minicomputers.
: Apple boys and the Billy boys went back to there camps and worked on similar
: projects. Whether or not they stole from each other, they both were
: essentially stealing from Xerox.
In fact, didn't Apple's piracy extend to stealing not just the ideas and
the GUI from Xerox, but some of the personnel as well?
NO.
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
" The letters do seem to agree that the Macs UI was created at Apple, by
Apple and for Apple. And that little if any Xerox work was taken, and
the Mac was in a completely different universe. Some broad concepts were
in common, but that is about it. Apple furthered those concepts,
developed their own, and had totally different implementations"