Re: Microsoft "innovation"

Yuri wrote: 
Nicholas Buenk <morn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Windows and Macintosh were both stolen off Xerox. 


No, they weren't. Key people working on the Alto project at Xerox were
recruited by Apple, where they've had a chance to turn their experiment
into a commercial product.

Microsoft, OTOH, ripped off the Mac's interface years after the
Macintosh was released, all without paying a dime to the inventors.

Can you understand the difference? 

Even if that is so, I think Xerox has grounds to sue both companies.
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