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Old 06-15-2007, 03:47 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by After Shock Media View Post
Nah it was Xerox and actually Xerox labs invented most of the shit we use for the internet. The problem was that the old men in charge of Xerox saw no use or possibility in anything the lab created.
That is why Xerox labs had no problem showing stuff off to Steve Jobbs who then stole the ideas and started up with Apple, which he sort of showed to Bill Gates to do some programing and Bill also saw the potential and stole it from Steve. Which really should end the Bill stole it arguement, nobody had clean hands aside from Xerox labs and their bosses who like IBM saw no potential in certain technology.
Microsoft did hire one of the former creator of the gui from parc which is the main reason they won their lawsuit against apple. They were able to make the argument of parallel development path even though other employees at Microsoft saw the apple gui.
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