Xerox Parc

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Wed Nov 6 08:08:00 2002

What your missing is the legal status of the work done at PARC. It was
in (large) part done with grant money,
so Xerox did not 'own' the resulting technology.

Lawrence Walker wrote:

> Something that I have always wondered about is why Xerox never sued
>Jobs ass off for the Mac GUI and also MSWindows which was derrived from
>Xerox's 'Small-Talk". They were a major corporation and Apple was quick
>enough to disembowel DRI's GEM altho Sam's Atari ST still continued to use
>an updated version of the original. MS has also litigated any threat to their
>bullying dominance and despite the protestations of the C-64 fans GEOS
>(any coincidence there) is obviously a clone of the GEM desktop. The mouse
>was also developed at Palo Alto. I have trouble simply accepting that a major
>corporation like XEROX was simply a stupid wimp. From all evidence I've
>seen Xerox invented the GUI. Something more important than CP/M,
>MSDOS, or UNIX. What am I missing here.
>
>Lawrence
>
>lgwalker_at_mts.net
>bigwalk_ca_at_yahoo.com
>
Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 08:08:00 GMT