on 5/11/02 12:47 AM, chris at cb_at_mythtech.net wrote:
>> Something that I have always wondered about is why Xerox never sued
>> Jobs ass off for the Mac GUI
The famous Jobs demo (two demos, actually) is described in some detail in
Michael Hiltzik's 1999 book, "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the dawn
of the computer age." Hiltzik says that in return for letting Apple tour
Parc, Xerox was allowed to buy 100,000 private shares of Apple (then worth
$1.05 million). Also, during this brief "alliance" Apple apparently
generously disclosed to Xerox their still-secret plan to bring out the Lisa.
Relations must also have been complicated by the fact that a number of Xerox
people (like Larry Tesler) later left Xerox to work at Apple.
Arlen
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Arlen Michaels
arlen_at_acm.org
Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 12:04:00 GMT