Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

[Ronald J. Hall]

Paul wrote:

> 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

It was something like that. Don't remember if it was Kodak or not
though. Xerox?/Palo Alto labs was the original designers behind a mouse
driven GUI though. Just never did anything with it. The history is sort
of covered in "The Pirates of Silicon Valley". ;-)

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