Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
>
> it was xerox (sp?). THey had the first GUI and
> "mouse" built and working at their palo alto research
> laboratory. Steve jobs or whoever took the idea.
>
> Dacia
> --- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> >
> > >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! <big grin>
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Promise, large promise, is the soul of an
> > advertisement.
> >
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> > Registered Linux User 174403
> >
>
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