The company that he worked for got the fee. There is some justice, he did eventually get a
cushy job at Microsoft, while his boss's went out of business.
At 03:10 PM 1/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
In a message dated 1/11/2003 2:47:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> That Apple ripped off from Xerox PARC.
>
> Everything's derivative.
> There are no rules!
> Yada, yada.
>
> BR
Not quite, because Bill Gates is the ultimate rip-off artist. And M$ is re-known for getting away with it.
IIRC the guy that "invented" Dos got a minimal flat fee from Gates and never saw any other profit. Access is a rip-off of Paradox; Excel is a rip-off of Lotus; the list goes on and on.
I WISH that Word had been a rip-off of Word Perfect, then it would be a better program. But Word Perfect is one product that managed to maintain its integrity against copying by M$, even if they did not maintain their market share.
Which is why I do not upgrade from one Windows version to another until I am absolutely forced to.
Doe aka Marnie
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx
