[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >Romanator wrote:
> >
> >> Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a
> >> derivative?
> >
> ><snip> Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when
> >it comes to Windog!
>
> A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read
> too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying
> the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface.
>
> Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for
> the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper
> documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc.
> already long before Apple got the idea.
>
> (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that
> is how I remember it.)
>
> Paul
>
Actually, the company was Xerox, whom Apple stole their original GUI from.
Jerry
