On 2010-01-15 07:59 , P. J. Alling wrote:
On 1/15/2010 4:35 AM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-01-15 00:35 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Well they more or less stole the idea for the Lisa OS from Xerox, then
sued Microsoft for having the temerity to steal the same idea for the
first version of Windows.
breaking news, that!
Windows 1.x was on the surface very Lisa/Mac like, with overlapping ...
my point was what's the point? it's a quarter century later -- all those
corporations have different cultures now, and it's a squirmy business
anyway to treat corps as if they are people with complex personalities
and histories; it's much more pragmatic to focus on the present actions
of organizations one does business with
nowadays it is nothing more than a fiduciary responsibility, because of
how corps work, to aggressively hoard and defend intellectual property;
those that don't do it get new CEOs or fail; we won't see the end of
this escalating condition until the business case for ideas as non-rival
goods is rehabilitated, and i think that won't happen without
eliminating both corporate personhood and the legal fabrication that
ideas can be owned
in other words, while Apple/Microsoft/Xerox/IBM etc. may have
established some precedents, there's little about the rancid state of
intellectual property disputes that can be blamed on an individual corp
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