Russell Coker wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2012, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
"hippy" aspect was a little overdone, I think, but the documentary gave me a historical perspective that I had lost. They pretended that Apple invented the mouse, but that was about the worst.
They gave credit to Xerox PARC, but credited Apple as being the first to rip off Xerox. That seems to correlate well with all other accounts.
For the lurkers, background reading is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Englebart#SRI_and_ARC The former is one of a rare commodity -- a video worth watching. | He never received any royalties for his mouse invention. During an | interview, he says "SRI patented the mouse, but they really had no | idea of its value. Some years later it was learned that they had | licensed it to Apple for something like $40,000."