Flame bait. The technology was licensed at what was considered a fair rate at the time. Xerox wasn't interested in personal computing at the time (to the disgust of their engineers) and when they became interested their computers were reviewed as unusable. Apple were not even the first to cherry pick from Xerox- HP did it for almost a decade before hand- nor were they the last with other vendors not even bothering licensing. Of course we shouldn't let reality have a place in this thread. ;) On 06/05/2012, at 14:41, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> 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.
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